I’m assuming you’ve seen Disney’s Planes. Besides being yet another fun movie from the World of Cars it’s also a terrific film because it features a farmer! Well, okay, a crop duster, but still. And while Dusty leaves the farm behind in search of fame and fortune, anyone can tell you he got his work-ethic and moral principles working in the corn fields!
At any rate, he’s a favorite around here.
Which is why it was lots of fun when Daddy stopped by the airport and commissioned a crop duster to drop nitrogen fertilizer on our fields!
All the extra rain we’ve had is causing the chemical nitrogen (and when I say chemical, I mean all-naturally occurring element number 7 on a Periodic table) to go deeper into the soil where the corn’s root system can’t reach it. Since corn depends on nitrogen– think Squanto adding fish to the Pilgrim’s garden– this is a problem!
Nitrogen is usually added before the fields are planted…
(like this ^)
but this little hiccup called for Plan B.
It really is pretty amazing to watch a crop duster work. They fly SO LOW! Then the loop and roll at the ends; it’s kind of our very own air show.
To go with our vey own Dusty Crophopper.
Daddy's Tractor 