Still Mowing Ditches?

I live in a rural area with plenty of habitat for small game, so no worries there.

Fence row to fence row farming and the introduction of Kentucy 31 fescue along with the protection of birds of prey have made small game hard to come by.

As every cloud has a silver lining, maybe the high price of fuel might allow for the growth of small game again.

Seems the rabbits are easy to find in neighborhoods, but tougher to find when hunting, and a "clean" farm is a waste of time when hunting small game.

Never did understand the recreational, worthless, finish mowing of road ditches. Seems like a real waste of resources to me.

Officials 'round here kinda would like to make us farmers not mow ditches for hay, keep them for wildlife habitat.

If it comes to that, they better enforce that for all, lawn mowers as well.

--->Paul

I keep another section of property mowed that isn't ours.
It is down along the river and it just looks better
if I keep it mowed. Since gas hit nearly $3/gallon
I quit mowing all of it. Just mow what's easy now.

This year I fenced off a large part of our 3 acres
and opened the gate to my neighbors cows.
Those cows have saved me a bunch of gas money.
And his cows need the grass. He supplied all the
fence materials and I did all the work.
So far it has worked out great for both of us.

Pooh Bear

Josh

TD