Asparagus field, farm, rural landscape

Netherlands, province Limburg, village Nederweert-Eind [municipality Nederweert]. The North-Limburg countryside is predominantly agricultural in character and is the most important Dutch production area for asparagus. For the white asparagus the ground is machined around the plant about two feet raised, ridging of the soil, create rows of hills, asparagus ridges. In such a hill, the shoot may be harvested for this comes at the surface. This asparagus field is covered with plastic in order to heat the soil, so that the plants grow more rapidly and give higher yields and in order to avoid that the asparagus heads change color when they are above the ground surface, to be exposed to the outside air. This asparagus field is ready for the new harvest season, asparagus season. In the background a large farm, farmyard, with livestock shelter, cattle barn.

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