My Mama Done Told Me

[Harry Collins]

Dean,

We do it here to kill off old crops and weeds prior to planting a different crop. It is cheeper and cleaner than herbicides. We also burn food plots for wildlife every five years or so.

Harry

[TARNATION !!!]

Harry has the explanation. The section of land that had the old homestead was a 100% hail loss. Easiest way to get the land ready for another crop is to burn off the other mess. Around here, very few burn cereal grain stubble anymore (zero tillage) but flax straw is burned and a hailed out disaster is burned, even though it would make good feed it would cost way too much fuel for what feed bales would return, so it is burned. The new owner of the land obviously believes all stubble should go.
Cheers,
Jack