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Originally Posted by A930Rocket
Is that what is being harvested now? On my way from Charleston to Kershaw, SC, I saw a lot of dust out in a field, and as I got closer, I realized they were harvesting something. There was another machine that looks like a huge hopper, that look like it was waiting to be filled up.
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This is soybean harvest season. Soybeans create a lot of dust and they can develop a toxic black mold that mixes in with it.
It's been dry here and the cloud of dust completely obscures the combine. The "huge hopper" is a "transfer wagon." They usually have two giant rubber tires or rubber tracks. When a semi can't get into the field (because the ground is too wet or soft) the transfer wagon is towed along beside the combine while the combine empties its hopper into the transfer wagon. The wagon then takes the load to the edge of the field where the semi is usually waiting while the combine fills it's hopper again. The big farmers around here run the combines from early morning till 10PM or so. .