Pretty nice shooting from a moving vehicle, would have been even better had you stopped

There are a lot of edits allowed, and straightening images and cropping is definitively allowed.
Easiest way to explain what you can do;
Just about anything that is applied to the whole image. e.g. you can desaturate by channels (remove all red, etc), but you can't desaturate part of an an image, by using masks etc.
Lately rules have also been changed to allow burn and dodge, which has of course been used in darkrooms forever.

I think this picture was shot while driving ... Isn't it ?
Well that's what this blurry part makes me think and it doesn't disturb me.
I feel like I'm in the same car as the author.

It would look better if the horizon was even - it leans down to the left too much and is distracting from the focal point.

The front is terribly blurry. You should just crop it so that it doesn't distract from the rest of the image.

Nice image, very poetic for a farm pictures contest, good luck!

If this contest was for fences, it would have been O.K. apart from the fact that it is a little too dark, IMO

There is a way to shoot through mesh fences so that the fence does not appear - I have used the method a number of times in crocodile enclosures and emus etc using shallow DOF and longer zoom - if it's OK to post links then you can check here:

http://www.shutterphoto.net/article/take-advantage-of-depth-of-field-to-make-things-disappear

Just thought it might be useful. The picture isn't the best for this example and you can use auto focus if you prefer to manual focus like the writer stated

whith the fence gone it would be oof. was the idea to have the fence the focal point?

Short of magically making the fence disappear, this is a nice photo.

The fence is a bit distracting.