Early morning sun, with a little mist and the dew glistening on the seedlings of winter wheat that are breaking through the damp earth.
Three weeks ago this was a field of sugarbeet and the year before hundreds of pigs cavorted around the field, dug the earth with their noses and manured the ground profusely; needless to say the sugarbeet crop was extremely abundant. A decade ago this land had been covered in orchards that were ripped out as the agricultural economy changed.
Now a couple of weeks on from harvesting the sugarbeet the field has been ploughed, harrowed, drilled and next year's harvest is already pushing up into the cool morning air; in agriculture the land works just as hard as the farmers.
As the weather cools the winter wheat will have gained a solid foothold and be ready for rapid growth in the spring, but first we have winter to look forward to.
It seems that farming is just perpetual motion in slow motion.