Missouri

Missouri started to take us into what appeared much more fertile soils and cropping land.

Feeling more at home with cattle happily grazing on pasture in Missouri.

Tracking aircraft movements outside our accommodation in the morning at Springfield.

While we did not find Longhorns in Texas we did find them in a paddock on what appeared to be a hobby farm on a small side road while travelling to a historic village.  The village was nothing much so we did not stop but we did find these cattle.

In another paddock this cow posed.

This little chap kept order in the cow paddock.

There were various conservation areas and this was an area that was part of the the original ranch that had not been cleared of the natural vegetation or had been allowed to regenerate.  It was off the highway 60 that went through the Mark Twain National Forest.

One of the unusual district names...

and was this for fairdealing as it was stopped outside the Post Office.

No this extra large flag was not in Texas but Dexter, Missouri.

Two headers working in a cloud of dust harvesting soy beans.  The dust created was incredible.

Intensive cropping...

Signage inot a remnant forst area close to the Mississippi River flood plain.

Picnic area at the entrance to the park with large trees.

Intensive crop opposite the entrance to the park showing the forest in the background.

Aerial view of the remnant forest in an otherwise intensive cropping area on the Mississippi deep silt flood plain now largely stop banked to enable the cropping.

Harvester at the parking lot for the ferry across the Mississippi River.  We crossed on the ferry into Kentucky.