Sunflowers

The local farmer who has leased some fields from us in the past usually plants hay, wheat, corn, and so forth. When things are slow here in Texas or “off season”(or if he has a failed crop or whatever), he takes all his mega agribusiness equipment and a crew (and himself) to the Midwest for a few weeks to harvest sunflowers (and other things). Last year, his friends up north talked him into trying a couple of fields of sunflowers in Central Texas. He didn