After the harvest

This is the large field across the road from where we live.

For the past seven years the farmer has grown a crop of maize, presumably for cattle fodder. These are the lines of white stubble that remain after the the harvest.

I always thought that growing the same crop year after year was risky - encouraging disease etc , and that therefore crop rotation was a the proper way of preventing this. Maybe the farmer knows what he is doing?

Anyway the neighbourhood crows, rooks and wood pigeons were happy enough, because substantial residue from the sweetcorn was left on the ground to provide them with several weeks of feed..

These white lines put me in mind of a ghostly regiment.