Benton County, Iowa (KCRG) – More Iowa farmers are leaving crops in their fields on purpose to keep snow off of roads.
It’s through the Iowa Department of Transportation’s program where it will pay farmers to leave up these standing ‘snow fences’ at the edge of their fields. The snow fences are about 8 to twelve rows of corn deep.
The DOT says farmers kept up 80 miles of living snow fences this year. That’s up from 75 miles last year and less than 60 miles the year before.
The state does hand-pick and pays the landowners for the corn that isn’t harvested.
