Rural Rice County, west of Faribault.
ACRE UPON ACRE OF CORN unfolds in the mixed sunshine and grey skies of an October afternoon in southeastern Minnesota.
Harvest underway east of Morristown, along Rice County Road 15.
It is the season of harvest.
Just west of North Morristown.
Cornfields roll into soybean fields, some harvested, some not.
Semis await the harvest in southeastern LeSueur County.
Harvesting just south of Faribault off Rice County Road 45.
A semi ready to be filled with soybeans.
Trucks and tractors and combines labor or await the farmers who will toil day into dark to reap that which they’ve planted and tended and watched until now.
Bins likely have been emptied for the new crop.
Corn fills a wagon at a farm site east of Morristown along Rice County Road 15.
More bins to bank the harvest.
Corn brims wagons like a stash of gold, banks of bins or the local grain elevator ready for harvest delivery.
In rural Rice County, a wagon at the harvest ready.
This is the season the farmer awaits.
Waiting…
This October, this harvest time.
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