Query To Hal/WA Re Grass Burning.

Posted by Deas Plant. on April 09, 2003 at 12:28:50 from (210.50.60.6):

In the 'Grass Burning' thread, I noticed a post from Hal/WA about a local Kentucky Blue grass farming industry being pretty much shut down by a law that prohibited burning off.

I am curious. Has anybody thought about putting up a class action to challenge this law on the grounds of restriction of trade? Has anybody approached their congressman or senator about the situation? Or whatever federal department that happens to be in charge of such things. Or George 'Dubbya'?

Here in Queensland, Australia, we have a MAJOR sugar cane industry running for around a thousand miles up the coast and almost all of the cane farmers burn off the crop before harvesting. This apparently controls several different diseases as well as reducing the amount of trash from the cane during harvesting which is ALL mechanical here these days.

This burning off produces a LOT of smoke and quite a lot of soot particles of varying sizes that travel some pretty fair distances on the faintest of breezes. So far as I know, nobody has yet been able to get any laws passed prohibiting this practice, or even proposed any laws that I know of.

This burning off is vital to the sugar cane industry which is in a bit of slump at the moment anyway. Some years ago, there was a move to try harvesting 'green' without burning off because all the harvesting is now done mechanically. It didn't last long because it soon became obvious that not burning off was going to let some diseases run rampant. Nearly everybody went back to burning off. So now, in the sugar cane areas, we all get to see large plumes of smoke in the evenings and sometimes wake up to soot over everything in the mornings from June through to December every year. It's keeping people employed.

The 'green' harvesting mentioned above even spawned a new sub-industry in baled cane trash for garden mulch. Baled cane trash is much harder to find these days as the cane farmers have pretty much all gone back to burning off before harvesting which removes all the trash.

You have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.

Follow Ups:

• Re: Query To Hal/WA Re Grass Burning. Hal/WA 00:45:53 04/10/03 (7)
  • Re: Re: Query To Hal/WA Re Grass Burning. Deas Plant. 05:00:59 04/10/03 (6)
    • Re: Re: Re: Query To Hal/WA Re Grass Burning. THE JAILHOUSE LAWYER 00:59:41 04/13/03 (0)
    • Re: Re: Re: Query To Hal/WA Re Grass Burning. Hal/WA 17:33:03 04/10/03 (0)
    • Re: Re: Re: Query To Hal/WA Re Grass Burning. paul 05:56:55 04/10/03 (3)
      • Re: Re: Re: Re: Query To Hal/WA Re Grass Burning. Deas Plant. 12:15:06 04/10/03 (2)
        • Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Query To Hal/WA Re Grass Burning. kydavid 17:59:14 04/10/03 (1)
          • Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Query To Hal/WA Re Grass Burning. Deas Plant. 01:46:34 04/11/03 (0)

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