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Thursday, July 17, 2025
In the olden days they'd burn the rice fields like this every fall and gunk up the sky for two or three weeks straight.
I remember back in the 70's when they burned the grass fields in the Willamette Valley. It would blot out the sky for miles and shut down the I-5 freeway.
Just after you cross the Combahee River headed north on US 17 to Charleston, there's around two miles of old rice (indigo?) fields where you can still see the canals used to harvest. Neat. And there's a canal parallel to each side of the road, so people are fishing there when the tide is high enough.
I saw this every fall in Japan. The farmers would stop the flow of water to the paddies and when the rice kernels had hardened, they would cut the stalks. They processed the rice kernels into bags and the chaff would be left in the paddy. The stalks would be used for tatami mats. They would burn the stubble and the chaff. It actually smelled nicely aromatic to me. Quite traditional.
While in the winter the orange groves at the southern end of the state would be heated by smudge pots. I got to experience both.
ReplyDeleteElsewhere it was the cane fields. Every now and then a smoldering volcano.
ReplyDeleteField burning is still allowed in Idaho.
ReplyDeleteI remember back in the 70's when they burned the grass fields in the Willamette Valley. It would blot out the sky for miles and shut down the I-5 freeway.
ReplyDeleteJust after you cross the Combahee River headed north on US 17 to Charleston, there's around two miles of old rice (indigo?) fields where you can still see the canals used to harvest. Neat. And there's a canal parallel to each side of the road, so people are fishing there when the tide is high enough.
ReplyDeleteStill common practice here in Northern Idaho after cutting the winter wheat...less prep for either canola or wheat seeding again...
ReplyDeleteDrive through eastern Arkansas on I-40 in about 6 weeks. Looks like the apocalypse after the rice is harvested.
ReplyDeleteI saw this every fall in Japan. The farmers would stop the flow of water to the paddies and when the rice kernels had hardened, they would cut the stalks. They processed the rice kernels into bags and the chaff would be left in the paddy. The stalks would be used for tatami mats. They would burn the stubble and the chaff. It actually smelled nicely aromatic to me. Quite traditional.
ReplyDeleteLet's not forget the hundreds (if not thousands) of libtard billionaires flying their private jets to world "global warming" conferences.
ReplyDeleteCan't have farmers burning off their fields to eliminate pests and weeds any more. That doesn't make money for the chemical companies!
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