Re: Speaking of Short-handled hoes

Posted by Paul in Mich on September 25, 2004 at 09:12:11 from (66.188.26.29):

In Reply to: Speaking of Short-handled hoes posted by Allan in NE on September 25, 2004 at 08:18:09:

Allan, We grow a lot of Sugar beets here in mid Michigan, and while we have a few field crews from time to time, they dont do much thinning anymore. I think that more than the seed companies, it is the planter technology that has controled the population and spacing of seeds. The same thing is found in corn and other row crops. As to sugar beet spacing, I think 6 inches is more like it rather than 8 inches. I chuckle somewhat when I read about legislation outlawing short handle hoes, because short handled hoes weren"t forced upon field labor, but rather field labor cut the handles off regular long handled hoes to allow them to work more precise and faster. Bending over to use a short handled hoe is not necessarily the back breaker as some do-gooders might suggest. If it were, they are 50 years too late, as so little field labor is used today as compared to 50 yrs ago.

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