Moore-Warner Farm Management

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Tree lined streams through farm country.

A snowy country road.

Town Hall - Waynesville, IL

Oil Rig - Drilling in Southern Illinois (2005)

Crossing the Illinois-Indiana border at St. Francisville, Illinois provides a unique experience via the Wabash-Cannonball Bridge! Once used by the railroad to cross the Wabash River, this two-section bridge has been converted for traffic use.


Wabash-Cannonball Bridge St. Francisville, Illinois	Wabash-Cannonball Bridge Supporting structure of one section

The bridge sections are separated by a two-lane road, allowing traffic to yield at the mid point of crossing.
Note there are no traffic lights - just courteous drivers.

Wabash-Cannonball Bridge - Covered Section
Viewed from the Indiana side of the bordering Wabash River.

This huge gear was once used to turn the bridge and allow river traffic to pass.


Wabash-Cannonball Bridge Gear portion on north side of bridge	Wabash-Cannonball Bridge - Covered Section Gear portion on south side of bridge

A country road in Indiana winds around farmland and levies

Levies play an integral role in protecting valuable acreage for farm land owners:


Standing at base level.	View of top level

Comparatively dry farmland indicates that the levy is working well to protect valuable acreage from what's on the other side ... the swollen Wabash River.

The water levels at the Port of St. Francisville are extremely high during this visit.
Locals explain that the road ends at the barricade (right) and the sign posts (left) are usually not under water.

Bath tub water tank for livestock

Scarecrows - Tuftonboro, NH

This livestock fence in Central Illinois captures the essence of gently-rolling plains created long-ago by glaciers

A roadside fence.
Residual wooden posts and barbed wire indicate
that this was used as a livestock pen.
Bald Peak, NH

Stone fences still serve as a boundary
between pastures and fields.

An old-time horse farm nestles in the hills
of the Ossipee Range

Stone fences through the woods are the faint echo of boundaries between long ago fields.

The Farm Pantry Meredith, NH

Tornado Damage – May 30, 2003 DeWitt County, Illinois

Tree ¼ mile away catches roof taken from this barn


Tree Damage	Home Damage	Bin Damage

Several bins Damage	Home Destroyed	Home Destroyed


Home Destroyed	Tree Damage


Country Skyscrapers	Root Cellar	Root Cellar

Hay Bale weight-1500 lbs.	Balloon	Settling down for the evening

J. H. Hawes Grain Elevator Museum in Atlanta, IL

"On the ashes of my campfire this city is built." Dodge City, Kansas

"My trails have become your highways.
Seven million head of longhorn cattle marketed from Dodge City, Kansas 1870s-1880s."

Old Spanish Trail, San Luis Valley, Colorado

Ernest Taxidermy, Monte Vista, Colorado


The ghost town of Centennial, Colorado	Old log house at entrance to Independence Pass, Colorado

Sculpture symbolizing the cowboy heritage of Lamar, Colorado

Mount Rushmore, South Dakota


The Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota	Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming	Mountain switchbacks in Wyoming


Buffalo Bill Cody's house in North Platt, Nebraska	Pocahontas, Iowa

Nebraska:

Various:


	Upright concrete silos and plastic wrapped ground storage in upstate New York	Stored farm grain will be transported by train or truck.

	Stored farm grain will be transported by train or truck.

On western farms livestock graze unrestricted.	Please don't hit the buffalo!	Western cottonwood tree studded with Magpie nests

Adobe root cellar	Barley handling facilities for beer production	Barley handling facilities for beer production

The Mt. Belknap Grange in Gilford, New Hampshire	The Mt. Belknap Grange in Gilford, New Hampshire	A maple sugar shack waits for spring in the winter woods of New Hampshire

The farm states recognize long-term family farm ownership	The Colorado State University Research Center in Monte Vista.	The Tuftonboro Grange in Tuftonboro Corners, New Hampshire

Sprinkler head on center pivot irrigation system in southern Colorado.	Irrigation downpipes and sprinkler nozzles. Downpipes deliver water close to the growing crop, reducing wasteful water evaporization at atomization	Irrigated barley in San Luis Valley, Colorado. The center pivot irrigation system nourishes the crop


Canyons across Nebraska	Winter in farm country	Wagon wheel ruts on Santa Fe Trail near Dodge City, Kansas


Dirt road in Kansas. Recent dust storm had filled in ditches along the roadside	Sod blacksmith shop at Fort Kearney, Nebraska. Gray bricks are actually composed of earth sod at least 2 feet wide and of varying lengths. Sod on the roof is laid over a wooden frame.	Potato storage facility in Colorado. Waste potato pile is in foreground.


	At harvest, fall fields make a patch work quilt of soft colors.


Bison on the western Plains 1999	A canyon in Nebraska	In the fragile soils of southwest Kansas, wagon wheel tracks, made over 100 years ago still remain. Santa Fe Trail, Dodge City, Kansas


Grass airstrip located between farm fields.	Potato storage quonset. Air conditioned and humidity controlled.	Colorado potato warehouse, full to the brim with the year's harvest. These potatoes will become commercial potato chips.

Tornado in Illinois	Getting closer to Tornado	Tornado touchdown

Aftermath of Tornado		A pattern of harvested fields interwoven with crops.

Homesteads, farm steads, tree lines, growing corn and soybeans, all combine to make a summertime prairie tapestry of Central Illinois	Sac City, Iowa 1897. Home of Mr.& Mrs Frank Scott, w/children: Nelly, Bessy, Tessy and Edna(babe in arms)	Sac City, Iowa home restored in 1997 by John Warner, IV.