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Amber waves of grain (sorghum)
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Fields of grain sorghum aka milo as far as the eye can see. Cotton, milo, feed corn everywhere.
Sorghum gets used for a lot of stuff but the sorghum grown here is mostly used as feed for cattle and pigs, biomass for renewable diesel and biodiesel, and ethanol production for fuel adultering.
This particular part of the field is a week or so out from being harvested. It's still too orange/rusty looking. It'll turn a red/purple hue when it's fully ready. Corn was harvested last month. Cotton is probably next month. Most of the fields will go fallow until next summer but some of the currently fallow fields will get some cotton, Milo, or corn planted. It's hot enough here we have two growing seasons.
Do you know what happened to the Texas citrus industry by any chance? In Chicago area we used to get truck loads of Texas grapefruit in the spring and then sometime in the last 20 years or so it seems like they stopped shipping them. I'm wondering if they still grow them or if they only ship closer to Texas now.
Probably citrus quarantine blowback. Citrus greening, citrus canker and Mexican fruit flies, but citrus greening is the big one. Citrus greening affects pretty much every thing grown in the Rio grande valley. It's probably no longer worth the hassle to have your citrus certified ok to export out of the quarantine zone.
No fruit, trees, seeds, cuttings etc. if you get caught and proven that the citrus tree you have in your possession came from quarantine zone, it's some sort of major federal case because it can potentially affect all citrus, private and commercial.