Turf Farm pics in Connecticut

Turf farming just came into my area a couple years ago.

For those of you blessed to not have Yuppies and similiar egos nearby, turf farms grow lawns...and the sod is cut into long rolls...and unrolled at new houses for instant perfect lawn.

The pics here are from Plainfield just southeast of me this AM while I was out of my (mid)morning ice coffee and Sunday drive on a Saturday.

I'm not real familiar with the operations of these farms -- I believe the red tractor is a giant mower, uses rotary sickle blades like golf courses do. The canopied machine I believe is used to pickup and palletize roles of turf.

This is what one side of their field looks like right now.

They've harvested the sod, and are preparing it for the next planting.

A roller to keep the lawns nicely compacted...

And I *believe* the implement on the Deere is what is used to cut and roll the sod.

Like I said, not real familiar so if anyone knows better, speak up!

When they're growing grass, they have a bunch of plywood cutout silohettes of German Sheperds they stake around the field to scare the deer away!