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31j20b3

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5. I didn't spray. The farmer who rents the land sprayed his soybeans
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 03:50 PM
20 hrs ago

It was a couple hundred feet from my wetland, but my Oak-Hickory woodland is adjacent to the fields

My farm is on the west side of a mile long drumlin (left over pile of gravel from the last glactiation. Here in Jefferson Co Wi the landscape is rolling, divided by 40-70 ft high drumlin hills and then descending into 10 thousand year old wetlands (once small glacial lakes). The wetland doesn't grown Oak-Hickory woods. It mostly grows tamarack, and hawthorn and paw-paw

For the most part herbicide death that results from the farming doesn't drift far from the margins of the field. The contractor does a reasonably good job of getting it on the crop and not the field margins. But this year was a magnificent beginning to milkweed.

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