Harvesting Soy Beans

A crew came out over the past few days and harvested the soy beans that are in the fields around us. I hope they didn't mind that I took some photos. I find it very interesting. So many people that live in cities have no idea of the work involved in farming which is where we get all of our food. The soy beans were planted in the spring and I have watched them growing all summer and now into the fall. These are photos of the harvesting. It is amazing that they can make a big machine like this that can cut the whole plant then separate the beans from the leaves and stem. The leaves. stems and hulls are discarded by the machine to go back into the soil as a mulch. 

This photo is of the dried you bean plants right before harvesting.

The beans being sent from the harvester into a waiting truck. I guess from the truck will take the soy beans to a silo near by until they are bought by a company that will process them into a food product.