Holiday Wreaths, etc..........

You can get your holiday decorations shipped from Burpee........

Farm Machinery

Living in a rural area is something I've experienced most of my life.  I'm accustomed to seeing large tractors ahead of me on the FM roads.  It's necessary for the farmers to move their equipment from one field to another, when the work needs to be done.  Naturally, the drivers who are behind them are scowling at them for being slow and in the way of traffic.  I'm sure they are in such a hurry with their own lives and world they can't realize that these farmers are part of what keeps our nation in needed food supplies.
The  farm machinery  they use is a dire implement utilized by all farmers, whether they are owners or laborers.  Each piece of farm equipment is used to do certain jobs necessary for the production of crops and conditioning of the soil for later planting. 
The local rural area where I lived was known for it cotton and grain crops.  We have a working cotton gin and grainery in our small town.  The freight trains come through here often and stop to pick up loaded grain cars to take across the states to processing plants.  In the same trip they drop of empty cars to be loaded with more grain held in the huge silos waiting to be shipped.  I haven't noticed the traffic of the cotton, from the "gin" once it's been processed into huge bales.  I have seen many trailers filled with the boles of cotton, that has been gathered by the farmer's and their equipment. 
I can even remember sitting under a trailer, when I was young, while my grand parents would pull cotton and place it in the big sacks they towed on their backs down the field rows.  When I grew older, they took cotton ducking and made me a "cotton sack" half the size of theirs so I could pick cotton to make a little money for my Saturday town candy run.  Going to town on Saturday's was something to us back in those years.  Having some jingle in our pockets made us feel good.  The candy was great too and times were considered hard back then.  We had no idea how this world would become so commercialized the way it is today.

Crops

I've noticed the farmers are gearing down from this year's crazy growing seasons.  Here in Texas, we have drought and that's become a problem to the farmer's who need hay for their livestock's survival.  Growing the grass takes a certain amount of rain to keep the process going.  If they plant certain types of grass mixed with other grains, then they really want some help from "Mother Nature".  I know they are having a nice feeling with the rain we've had recently.  Too bad it wasn't coming back during the growing season when it was most needed.
Some farmers have been putting their livestock on the markets in order to down size their stock.  It's become too expensive for them to operate and maintain healthy animals for market when they are grown.  Good essential crops are necessary to handle the load of operations.

Blueberrys

Plant Fall Cover

Fall

So, now the real work has begun and you are mulching like crazy, doing the last of the mowing, and getting the soil ready for next season's planting.  You might consider saving a small area for those fall plants that carry through the winter months.  Kale, and a few others really are good during the winter months.  Consider these when you make your next vegetable garden.
There are also the flowers, and bulbs for your spring blossoms, so get everything ready for winter's blast and springs' arrival.