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When the silage chopping begins on corn, it means wet corn harvest isn’t far behind, to be followed by the dry corn harvest. County roads and highways have been busy with trucks hauling silage to local feed yards as forage harvesters turn fields of corn into silage. Here, a 12-row harvester owned by Green’s Custom Service of Imperial chops a pair of corn fields southeast of Grant Tuesday morning. The head on the harvester chops the full plant which is then pulled it into the harvester, which pulverizes ear, cob and stalk into tiny pieces that gets blown into the truck traveling alongside. It takes lots of horsepower, more than 800 horses in this machine, to transform the plant into small bits of silage.

America and its people were forever changed by the events of Sept. 11, 2001 when terrorists piloted planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington. Two reflecting pools with the names of the more than 3,000 who died rest over the original footprint of the north and south towers at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.