This time of year, fields are ripe or browning back with evidence of activity. Stalks of corn stand tall for miles and miles. Soybean leaves begin to yellow. Hayfields are mown or will be soon and spun into rolls or rectangular bales. The harvest is in.
But what of the fallow field, abandoned, overgrown, and fruitless? It looks so useless.
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