Harvest is underway on the Huguley farm. We started with black-eyed peas and then headed to the sorghum fields. My farmer and a lifelong friend and fellow farmer, Leonard Lawson, are helping each other harvest this season. Our son has also returned from college to make a few rounds on the combine.
No matter who is behind the wheel, there's nowhere I'd rather be than in the field, photographing every step. What a privilege to stand in my farmer's fields and watch him finish what he started.
It's been another tough year. Late-season drought and extreme temperatures took a toll. On many of our farms, rather than planting 120 or 60 acres, my farmer has resorted to planting 30-acre blocks of black-eyes and sorghum (grain or forage), so he can stagger the watering. The other acres are fallow with a wheat cover. The water table continues to drop, pressing area producers to become more creative on less acres. How to produce more with less is an endless conversation in his mind, and he's already extremely efficient.
Sorghum harvest is underway in Lamb County. (Photo by Shelley E. Huguley)
We keep praying and asking the Lord for wisdom. In the meantime, we'll finish what we started in fields backlit by a harvest moon. Thankful for the harvest. Blessings on yours!
Grab a cup of coffee, watch the sun rise above the horizon in the east, and begin to sink in the west. It's harvest, y'all!
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