Horn Canna Farm for Oklahoma Agriculture Magazine

I just love photographing Oklahoma farmers and ranchers. I was hired to photograph the Horn Canna Farm in southwest Oklahoma last year, for publication in the 2017 Oklahoma Agriculture Magazine produced by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture. I met them at daybreak in late September 2016 and set up for photos before sunrise. They had huge fields of cannas that they harvested and sold all over the USA. The story ran in the 2017 edition of Oklahoma Agriculture.

The opening spread photo for the story about the Horn Canna Farm in southwest Oklahoma for Farm Flavor Media/Oklahoma Agriculture Magazine.

While the following photos didn’t run in the story, they show the process used to separate the canna bulbs and ship them off to market.

The Horn family had to build this custom harvester just specifically to harvest canna bulbs. It is a one-off design.
Once the canna bulbs have been harvested, they are brought to a shed and hand-sorted and cleaned then packaged for shipment all across the United States.

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