Tom OConnor
Member
Being transplanted to our new area west of Phoenix this past winter it has been a great education watching all the different ways that farmers farm in this part of the country. Most every vegetable known to man seems to be grown here along with many differtent flowers and thounds of acres of corn, wheat, alfalfa and even some sugar beets. I will try to post some pictures along with some pictures of the harvesting equipment. Wheat, alfalfa, corn and sugar beets all get fed to cows. Corn and wheat get double cropped and alfalfa gets cut from every 21 to 30 days. The first pictures are of a carrot harvester and a field of carrots. Everything depends on irrigation. I have seen them harvest the alfalfa in large square and small square but mostly the big choppers with a semi running along side. When they are using the small squares the "Freeman" three string baler seems to be the favorite. Tom
