Selwyn Times: March 06, 2019
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Wednesday [Edition <strong>March</strong> 6 datE] <strong>2019</strong> 353<br />
SELWYN RURAL LIFE<br />
Why the burn offs?<br />
Although it sounds odd to many, stubble burning benefits rural fire safety<br />
during the summer. Controlled burns remove many hectares of highly<br />
flammable material from rural areas, thus providing fire breaks in case of<br />
accidental fire events.<br />
Why don’t farmers burn in the morning when dew might make it ‘safer’?<br />
The reasons for this are that the stubble has to be dry to burn well; burning<br />
damp stubble will be less effective and will create more smoke. The safest<br />
time to burn stubble is early in the evening, on hot days, when winds are<br />
light or calm; unfortunately this is also the time that many non-farmers are<br />
arriving home from work and looking forward to sitting outside with a cold<br />
drink.<br />
Farmers must have permits to burn stubble and follow strict rules around<br />
things like wind conditions and smoke management. Permits must be<br />
gained in advance and they last throughout the stubble burning season.<br />
For more information go to www.checkitsalright.co.nz . The same permit<br />
is required by anyone living on a property over 2 hectares who wishes to<br />
burn rubbish, hedge clippings etc. Anyone living on a property under 2<br />
hectares, may not burn outdoors unless they are cooking.<br />
Stubble is the crop residue left in a paddock after the grain has been<br />
harvested. Dealing with stubble is part of preparing the paddock/soil in<br />
order to sow the next crop. Depending on what the next crop will be, the<br />
farmer has a range of options for dealing with this stubble; baling and<br />
removing the straw, leaving the stubble standing and sowing the next crop<br />
into it, ploughing the stubble into the ground, or burning it.<br />
Each of these options has its own set of advantages and disadvantages. The<br />
farmer will decide which option to use based on a range of factors including<br />
what crop will be sown next; whether the paddock has any particular weed<br />
or pest problems which could be alleviated by burning; whether they are<br />
trying to reduce farm emissions by reducing the hours spent on tractors,<br />
and whether there is a market for the straw once it is baled.<br />
As most Canterbury wheat and barley crops have now been harvested,<br />
stubble burning is well underway on farms where it has been deemed the<br />
best practice for this season.<br />
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