Farm Fields Out of Rotation Around Milan
A lot of the acreage in York and Augusta Townships has come out of crops. Sold for a house that never got built, or held by someone who moved away. Left alone, it goes goldenrod and ragweed in one summer and autumn olive in three.
Anyone who has tried to mow a field this size with a garden tractor knows how that ends: a thrown belt by the second acre. A field lawn mower from the farm store is built for trimmed grass, not stalks at chest height. A real field grass mower hangs off a tractor hitch, so we bring the tractors and flail heads we run and knock it down in one pass.