What is it?

[HangOutdoors]

On my trip through South Western Ohio, and Southern Indiana around Brookville Lake, we saw a ton of farms. The corn was very tall and thicker in the fields than it is in Michigan. But we also saw a lot of these. Usually fields of corn next to fields of these. We didn't get to get close since most of the roads were somewhat narrow and I don't like to go on someone else's land.

What are they?

 

[HangOutdoors]

 

[TimW451]

Those are soybeans. Crops should be rotated in fields, corn and soybeans are a common pairing.

 

[HangOutdoors]

Thanks

 

[mwalker4]

They don't have beans in Michigan? That's surprising to this Buckeye.

 

[HangOutdoors]

Just the sheer volume of the fields and how robust and full they looked was pretty impressive. The corn fields, the stalks were very high and looked very full. And these soybean fields looked fantastic. I am not out in the country much here in the suburbs

 

[mwalker4]

It's been a great growing year so far. I have someone farm our 20 acres and the beans are looking great. Your right, the corn is huge this year.

 

[mwalker4]

Just the sheer volume of the fields and how robust and full they looked was pretty impressive. The corn fields, the stalks were very high and looked very full. And these soybean fields looked fantastic. I am not out in the country much here in the suburbs

Which burb do you live. I used to spend a lot time in Farmington Hills and Livonia for work.

 

[HangOutdoors]

Royal Oak. Grew up in Detroit and then Farmington Hills.

 

[zipper]

@TimW451 is spot on. The corn depletes the soil of nitrogen. Rotating with soybeans the next growing season will put nitrogen back into the soil. Legumes fix nitrogen into the soil with nodules on their roots. Growing soybeans can put up to 50#'s of nitrogen per acre back into the soil. Reducing the need for chemical fertilizers.

 

[GTBRMC]

There are a lot of soybeans in central Michigan, quite a few white beans too, not so much in SE Michigan in HangOutdoors neck of the woods.