Monday, April 28, 2008

GASPORT'S YELLOW FIELDS

Right now a lot of wheat fields around Gasport are yellow, while others are a healthy green. Don't worry: the yellow fields are not diseased crop failures.

Those fields are "volunteer wheat", a wheat crop that naturally appears a year after a commercial wheat crop. All the volunteer wheat fields have been sprayed with a "weed killer" to destroy that unwanted wheat and to prepare for corn or beans.