Field prep

It's hot, overcast, sultry weather - no better time to go outside and sweat. After spreading fertilizer on the burned fields, we plowed under the wheat stalks in preparation for rice planting. We will have to plow several times but this first one gets the field mixed before it rains. Now we are digging the corners, by hand, because the plow kicks up the dirt and mounds it when you turn the tractor and in such small fields, we need the flooded area to be flat. So we go out there and dig the heavy clay soil, tossing it into the center of the field. There must be a better way to do this...but it is a good workout.