Chronic Irrigation

We started off the day looking at a field of wheat being sprayed with a fungicide. This seemed like a waste of time to me, as it was bone dry, hadn't rained for two months, and the crop would be dead in a bout a week. Still, they wanted to do everything. When it came time to fill up again, very sweetly, the booms were given a nice rest by lying them on the floor.Here are a couple of crops I Wasn't expecting to see, linseed and peas. Both very much cool season plants, in a hot season climate. I think we have an easy farm, this place is another planet. Here's a rectangular 600ha field of wheat.These zero-tilled sunflowers looked really good, considering the lack of rain. No problems with compaction that we could see - nice straight roots.Onto the biggest irrigation project in Russia. They have around 100 pivots, some of which are 480m long covering 129ha of crops each.This pump house can move 3 tonnes of water every second:Back in Stravropol there was a first- a black burger which came complete with black latex gloves for eating it with:And finally another arty farty photo: