Wow, that is crazy farming! What’s with the two different greens in the fields?
Erosion is a HUGE problem here, due to all the hills, so crops are inter-planted like this to help prevent that. The darker green is feed/seed corn and the lighter is either soybean or alfalfa. Sometimes Wheat or Rye or Oats are planted, too. It’s really quite pretty.
Pretty much everything around here is for dairy and beef cattle to eat and or use for winter bedding.
Before Beau bought our current farm, (1983; the ‘farm’ has been here since 1900) these ‘practices’ were not always in place, so if I need really ‘good’ dirt, Beau will bring some up from the pasture below us. That is some AWESOME stuff, as everything GOOD about the soil ended up down there back then and it’s never grown anything other that grass and wildflowers.