Yep, peas. Used to be a lot of them around here (SW Washington), very few growers left. We took a drive through the Boistfort Valley today, and saw several fields.
Those are "pod striper" combines- strip the pods off the very short pea plants. Up into the '50's, peas were on long vines, that were cut and loaded on wagons, and taken to a stationary "pea viner" and pitched in by hand. Lots of extra work, dealing with the vines, but they did make nice silage. My dad bought a silage stack in the early '50's for his dairy cows- I was about 5, and "helped" him load and haul it every day. The peas in it were compressed and pickled, and were about the size and shape of aspirin tablets. Very tasty!
They kept breeding shorter vines, so by the 60's they switched to mobile "viners", that ran the whole vine through the combine. Left nice pea hay, after the vines dried out. Now they've got the vines so short that they just stand upright, so you can just strip the pods off the vines. Pea hay and silage is pretty much a thing of the past.
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