Farmers Can Help DOT By Leaving Standing Corn For Snow Fence
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9/27/2017
Fall arrived just last week, and the Iowa Department of Transportation is already looking ahead to winter by signing farmers up for the Standing Corn Program.
Periodically, severe winter storms will create large snow drifts that close roads and driveways, isolate farmsteads, and increase snowplowing. Many of these drifting problems happen in the same place year after year.
Snow fences have been used for generations. Snow fences are typically made from wood lath or orange plastic. But they can also be made from standing rows of corn.
We talked to Iowa DOT Winter Operations Administrator Craig Bargfrede about their corn snow fence program. He says it’s a program that they’ve run for a number of years.
Read the full article or listen to the interview on the KIWA Radio website.
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