The central part of the state gets less rainfall. Western Kansas gets more sunshine, the least amount of rain and many crops grow with the help of irrigation. They will use a planter or grain drill that is pulled behind the farmer's tractor and drops the seed in parallel rows. The farmer may use a cultivator, which is a piece of machinery that scrapes under the weeds to kill the weeds by cutting off their roots, provided that he planted in rows wide enough for the tractor and cultivator to pass through. A chemical may be applied to control weeds, insects or plant diseases.
Farmers are caretakers of their land.
After all, that is where they live and they want to drink clean water like you and me. Grain sorghum, because of it's smaller seed size, grows slower in the earlier stages than corn. It grows to a height of approximately four feet tall. Leaves are a brilliant green in the spring and summer but begin to turn light brown in the fall. Farmers use combines to harvest their grain sorghum.