Dead Soybeans

Out in the middle of the soybean field by my house there’s a patch of dead soybeans.

I laid my hoe in there to provide an idea of the size of this spot. So it’s about 6 feet across.

What caused this? A lightning strike! We had a thunderstorm about a week ago and I saw lightning hit the field. This is about 100 yards from my house.

I was out hoeing volunteer corn out of the field when I came across this spot. Working in a field by hand gives you an visceral understanding of just how big an acre is and that a ‘long row to hoe’ is not just an idiom.

This is the view from the far side of the field. It was a long way home.