Iknow that plant development moves at a swift pace and there’s really not that much time between when the seeds are sown and when the crops are reaped, but that was really brought home to me this summer.

When my husband, Brian, and I pulled out of the farmyard on July 13, to move our daughter, Ellen, to Cary, North Carolina, the wheat fields around us had just begun to head out, dirt was visible between the soybean rows and the corn was about waist high.

I expected that in a couple of weeks when we returned from our trip to Cary the crops would be a little bigger and taller, but when a health issue delayed my return to eastern North Dakota to the end of August, they had grown far more than that.

The wheat fields, which already had been harvested, were golden blankets of stubble, the s

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