Letters - March 3, 2011

Dirt slides

In response to the pet peeve published in the Feb. 17 edition regarding the “tax payer” and state of the clean up of dirt slides by farmers working their fields too close to the edge. Would this person rather see miles of Russian Thistle, Canadian Thistle, Kochlo weed, Dog Fennel and many other unsightly weeds on their drive through the county and state?

When fall comes, these weeds will break off and seed themselves through miles of countryside including family back yards and gardens. Also, these weeds will plug up state and county ditches.

I have watched CRP fields and land that...