So I was flying across the upper Midwest yesterday

[spinbaby]

This may be neither here nor there, but I flew into Detroit yesterday and happened to notice out the window that more than half the farmer’s feilds seemed to be unplanted. They were brown and appeared to be plowed and presumably treated with Roundup. Here it is, the height of the growing season, and nothing is growing. All that bare earth really bothered me.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Tons of replanting after a major Hail strom

and heavy rains?

[spinbaby]

2. Don't know

Some of these fields had been plowed long enough ago that you could start to see some patchy weed growth. What bothers me is that if they were leaving the fields fallow, wouldn’t you plant some kind of cover crop? I kept thinking of the Dust Bowl.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Usually it is about

economics when you see land setting idle. Not good.

[StTimofEdenRoc]

3. Are you looking at hay fields after first cutting has been harvested?

[spinbaby]

5. No, that's a different color

This was definitely plowed fields

[pansypoo53219]

6. delayed in wi, but plentof rain. finally got peas from farmers market + beans.

planted my pole beans a few weeks ago. even the sunflowers came up late. weather weird enough to plant a few more sunflower seeds.