A Mormon creaser is a type of marker.  It not only marks out the furrow, it also flattens the rows (slightly packs the top of the rows) making a better environment for the little seeds.

This is an older photo; I wasn’t able to get one today, of DH backing the tractor out with the Mormon Creaser attached.  It has a long flat bar with shovels attached.  

Even though you are seeing the process for corn, the same steps exist for the bean ground.  Alfalfa will be planted with oats as a mother crop and has slightly different planting steps.  Not a lot of difference, but some.  For instance, Mormon Creasing is not used on grain or alfalfa fields, but a broadcasting method. 

One of the fun things about working in the fields is you get to see lots of wildlife or evidence of wildlife.  Raccoons like to wash their food in the ditches, we have lots of ground birds that lay their eggs in the fields, and every once in awhile I get to see either a fox or a coyote.

This morning, while coming back from a head gate, a beautiful red fox ran alongside of the dog and I on the four-wheeler.  OF COURSE I didn’t have the camera, because I am always afraid I will drop the darn thing in the water.  But it was thrilling anyway!  Thrilling for the dog, he whined and barked, probably gave the fox a huge fright, and thrilling for me just to be so up-close-and-personal to the fox!