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Originally Posted by scottish_flame
I looked out the back window of my house which faces farmland. I saw what looks to me like fire. so my questions would be
1) Do farmers burn/set fire to old crops or whatever they are farning
2) if they did is it normal to do it this time of year
3) is it illegal
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1) Sometimes farmers burn excess straw.
2) it would be normal to burn it in the spring. Perhaps they never had time in the fall, or bad weather which made baling impossible. It's usually pretty wet to try and bale in the spring and they have other more important things to worry about which makes burning old straw an option.
3) Mind your beeswax.
Actually I think most farmers get fire permits. Some probably don't bother if they are just burning a few broken straw bales rather then a whole field.