Simply put,weed control. And the fact that folks dont want the state spraying weed killers up and down the roads we all travel. Increased danger of drift onto your land if the state does this, even though it does pencil out to be cheaper than mowing. Mowing road sides also decrease greatly the chances of car animal collisions, increases safety by increasing visibility etc. Lots of reasons. Mowing your yard at the proper time and at the proper hieght actually helps it. Mowing your pastures especialy this time of year really helps to kill weeds. Lots of times its used in conjunctin with spraying. and the TIMING of spraying is just as important as anything else. simply put Spraying gains you very little if you dont spray the weed your trying to control at the proper time. With all the miles of roads most states have it would be foolish to try to spray it all in a two week period when the plants are small enough for a proper kill. Figure in the added runoff from spraying ditches,the environmental considerations alone makes it unfeasable.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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