Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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Since I am now in the process of retiring after more than 40 years of farming, I thought I would pass along some of the things I have learned. I remember as a kid there were ditches in the field from erosion that required filling before crossing with a wheat truck. I remember farming with plows and hoeing weeds in the summer fallow by hand. When I later took over the farm, I believed in chisel plowing deep to break the “plow pan.” Then, I did the strip farming when it was recommended to prevent erosion. I soon learned that this did little to...
