Wheat Watch IV

The wheat has started to head - this is the stage in wheat development where you can actually see the future kernels of wheat.  This stage has come about three weeks ahead of schedule this year because of the unusually warm weather.

 You can see the heads of wheat growing out of the top of the plant:

It's growing....

I found the below fun fact in the high plains journal:

After I saw this I realized that my perception of food has changed.  Before I started working on the farm, food was just food.  Now I'm starting to see all the work, time and effort it takes just to grow two of the thousands of verities of crops grown year round.  The other day I caught myself looking at a bowl of grapes and thinking I wonder what farmers have to do to grow, harvest, and deliver these. 

-Farmer Ryan