On Sunday we decided to drive west of Boise towards Steve's coworkers house. He has been telling us about all the hops fields in his area and warned us they were going to be picking them soon. We also headed on over to Oregon (less than 30 miles away) where we watched a farmer picking onions. We also finally confirmed what a potato field looks like. (Yup we had to drive to Oregon to find potatoes. Of course now we know what they look like we should be able to spot them easier.)

Hops

Hops 

Hops 

Hops 

Hops 

Onions. They stop irrigating them now so they will dry down and toughen their skins. 

An irrigation ditch. The water is low because they are not irrigation this field 

Hops 

Hops with Steve volunteering to be a yard stick 

Really short corn. We have no idea what the story is but we have seen numerous fields of it 

Potato field. Yup we had to go to Oregon before we could confirm these were potatoes 

Just so you are certain Nyssa labels the fields along this road 

Potatoes in the field 

Potatoes close up 

a butte. We're pretty sure it's called Malheur Butte 

onions 

The onion harvester

The onion harvester

Onions 

The Onion harvester. It probably has a fancier name

The onion harvester

Onions dried down and waiting for harvest 

Onions waiting for harvest. At this point they have been pulled out of the ground and the next machine picks them up, removes the stalks and drops them into a truck 

Onion havesting. The farmer said they were not a mild onion. He gave us a couple but we haven't used them yet