It was good to see more open grazing country in Texas and Oklohama but we were soon to find considerable variablity, then intensive cropping and cattle feedlots as well as oil wells.
It was well indentified as we crossed inot Texas.
Flat and wide, but otherwise more of the same.
Grain store and feed mixing for cattle feed lot operation next to the highway.
Company signage in front of the mixing plant.
Cattle were in open pipe railed pens with wide lanes between for feed trucks to traverse. There must have been thousands of cattle in the extensive array of pens some of which can be seen in the distance. A couple of stockmen were along a lane on horseback but must of the activity was machine based.
Oil and crops in the same location was common.
Not all raod has grain silos at the end but grain storage was part of the landscape.
As were oil processing plants and some were identified as plants manufacturing nitrogen fertilizer of the extensive cropping area.
Cereal may be for feed lot use as it was autumn and the plants appeared to big for winter wheat and too late for the current harvest season.
Cotton became more frequent as we travelled east and dropped in altitude.
Most of the corn (maize) it irrigated by centre pivot irrigators.
Sorgam, ???
While oil "nodding donkeys", cattle and crops were expected these wind turbine were a surprise.
And some "nodding donkeys" were almost a showpiece matching the smart new wind turbines.
The sune rises in Oklohama clearly showing us the way east.
...and some new vistas.
...with tidy roadsides...
...as well as tidy paddocks.
Another lunch stop with a visitor...
...the water snake had just caught and swalloed live a small fish near the shore. So you see we had lunch together before leaving Oklohama.
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