Boring 1, Yellowstone
Boring 2, Mammoth
Boring 3, Tetons
Boring 4, Critters
Boring 5, Roadside Oddities
Boring 6, Vehicles
Boring 7, Wild Flowers
Boring 8, Geology
Boring 9, Idaho Ag
Boring 10, Craters of the Moon NM
Boring 11, Dinosaur NM
Boring 12, Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Boring 13, Ouray and Ridgeway, CO
A few photos of our trip west of the Tetons. When we were there in late May, small grains of some kind, perhaps barley, were just coming up. And potatoes were being planted.
It appeared to us that all irrigation was from canals. And two extremes stood out. One was the rolling country around Driggs Idaho and similar places, and how they were farming slopes we would never farm in Texas. Yet they did not seem to have erosion problems. One surmises that they don't get the heavy summer rains we do. Maybe all their moisture comes in winter snows.
Second is how places like NW of Arco, they were farming flat out deserts. Amazing what you can do with enough water.
We were also impressed at how farmers could pay attention to their farms, with some of the magnificent scenery in the background.
Our biggest photography failure was not getting pics of potato planting. The planters looked like this photo from the web:
And we loved the brand name of some of them: "Spudnik". So here's an old potato shed
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potato shed by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr
Loading seed potatoes to head to the field
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loading seed potatoes by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr
The truck and loading conveyor
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seed potato truck and loader by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr
And a field freshly planted to potatoes.
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just planted potatoes by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr
[This message has been edited by CanyonAg77 (edited 6/30/2013 10:21p).]
[This message has been edited by CanyonAg77 (edited 6/30/2013 11:27p).]
Boring 2, Mammoth
Boring 3, Tetons
Boring 4, Critters
Boring 5, Roadside Oddities
Boring 6, Vehicles
Boring 7, Wild Flowers
Boring 8, Geology
Boring 9, Idaho Ag
Boring 10, Craters of the Moon NM
Boring 11, Dinosaur NM
Boring 12, Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Boring 13, Ouray and Ridgeway, CO
A few photos of our trip west of the Tetons. When we were there in late May, small grains of some kind, perhaps barley, were just coming up. And potatoes were being planted.
It appeared to us that all irrigation was from canals. And two extremes stood out. One was the rolling country around Driggs Idaho and similar places, and how they were farming slopes we would never farm in Texas. Yet they did not seem to have erosion problems. One surmises that they don't get the heavy summer rains we do. Maybe all their moisture comes in winter snows.
Second is how places like NW of Arco, they were farming flat out deserts. Amazing what you can do with enough water.
We were also impressed at how farmers could pay attention to their farms, with some of the magnificent scenery in the background.
Our biggest photography failure was not getting pics of potato planting. The planters looked like this photo from the web:
And we loved the brand name of some of them: "Spudnik". So here's an old potato shed
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/chs_girls_soccer/8990939285/]
[/url]potato shed by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr
Loading seed potatoes to head to the field
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/chs_girls_soccer/8992156006/]
[/url]loading seed potatoes by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr
The truck and loading conveyor
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/chs_girls_soccer/8990955047/]
[/url]seed potato truck and loader by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr
And a field freshly planted to potatoes.
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/chs_girls_soccer/8992131600/]
[/url]just planted potatoes by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr
[This message has been edited by CanyonAg77 (edited 6/30/2013 10:21p).]
[This message has been edited by CanyonAg77 (edited 6/30/2013 11:27p).]
