Photo of the Day 11/13/06

Corn, beans, corn.

That is, from left to right, what each of these farm implements gathers up in the field. For those who are "farming-challenged", one of these things would be hooked to the front of a giant tractor called a combine. The combine, in a nutshell and oversimplified, drives through the fields at harvest time and these special fronts (headers) help direct the crops to the right place so they can get sucked into the combine, instead of just being run over. The combine then separates the plants from the grains growing on them. The combine is essentially a giant plant-eating filter. These were parked in a row by a creative (organized?) farmer or perhaps farmhand on the highway outside of town.

The company I work for makes every header for beans (called reels, the center one) that goes on every combine in North America, and for some in other countries around the world.