The farmer’s encroachment
April 17, 2011 at 3:30 pm in Worthington Daily Globe
Big machinery, high-value crops lead some to plow up public rights-of-way
WORTHINGTON Take a drive in the country these days and you may notice a changing landscape one in which some farmers are inching their implements beyond what used to be fence rows and plowing up portions of public rights of way. Continue Reading
Two years ago, I was sickened by how close the farmer had plowed up to my families burial plot at the Amo Lutheran cemetery rural Storden (Cottonwood county). My parents and my grandparents are buried there. I was horrified at what I saw. We learned from another family who was also visiting the cemetery that day that there is a rural cemetery in Martin County where a farmer actually plowed up a grave. It was said to have been a childs grave who had died in the early 1900′s. The grave stone was flat and sunken into the ground with overgrowth of grass surrounding it. But still, the tractor and plow should not have gotten in that close to begin with. I don’t care how big a tractor and plow is, it is the operator in the cab who controls where it goes.
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