Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: combine

This is the same farm and work crew as the photo I posted earlier this afternoon, but from the other side and much closer. Most of the local farmers are doing something similar--harvesting the crop with their combine, then dumping the grain into a hopper, where it waits for a truck to arrive and relieve the load. Appears to work, but it sure seems like a messy workflow. ========== I'm less than happy with this one. The photo came out OK--it's got decent detail, and shows all the equipment these folks are using--but all that dark on dark stuff is problematical....

Harvesting soybeans turns the entire rest of the plant to dust. South of Mulliken, Michigan.

A dirty job; somebody's got to do it. The combine's just dumped part of its load into the orange trailer and has turned to make its next pass through the wheat. The chaff goes out the chute; the wheat stays in the harvester. I found this guy by keeping my eye out for the characteristic cloud of dust. There's a bigger truck waiting for it to arrive at the other end of the field. In the past three days nearly every wheat field in Roxand Township's been harvested. Clearly it's time.

My self-assignment this morning was to find a farmer harvesting wheat. No luck; best I could do was a handful of harvesters parked in mid-field, mostly after completing the job. This guy's behind the barn and house, on the edge of a half-harvested back forty. I'll try again, perhaps later today and certainly tomorrow.