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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retired Educator" data-source="post: 174091" data-attributes="member: 3373">Not sure how this went from needing rain to blaming farmers for removing tree rows but I guess that's the nature of most discussions. I grew up on a farm that had several miles of tree rows. Lots of places on our farm there was a tree row every 40 rods or 1/8 of a mile. A whole bunch of 40 acre fields. Worked pretty good back then with 16' cultivators and other smaller machinery. Not so good now with 50-60' air-seeders, 100'+ sprayers and 40' swathers and combine headers. That and our single row tree breaks never did hold much for wildlife. Occasionally saw a deer bedded in the summer and an occasional partridge, but never in the winter; to full of snow. Most of those tree rows are now gone as they eventually died and became a row of sticks. A lot of those tree rows were planted with a fast growing tree and typically a fast growing tree is not a very long life tree. I don't blame the farmer for removing most of those tree rows. With limited tillage land does not blow as easy as it did then. I know there were blowing fields this spring but for the most part it's not the problem it was years ago when everything was worked black if there was no crop growing. In the spring land is a little more fragile and that is precisely the reason this topic started. We need rain to get things growing in the spring and get that land covered. Rain in the spring benefits everyone as the grass gets off to a good start. Crops get going quickly and the air is cleaner. In the end, just under an inch in the north central part of the state and that was somewhat scattered as a few miles away they maybe didn't get enough to wet the ground. A good rain statewide would make everyone feel better.</blockquote>

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