This is in response to Kay Dimick's "Farmers' Driving."
First of all, farmers are in the fields spring and fall, not summer and fall. Secondly, if the farmer has planted corn so you can't see around a corner, you could ask the farmer if he could cut so far down on the corn stalks. It's not always the farmer's corn fields that block the view of traffic anyways.
Farmers don't have the finances to hire people to escort them down the roads, like trailer businesses do. When you see farm equipment coming down the road, all you have to do is slow down and be cautious. That doesn't mean you have to pull into someone's yard. If you are that close to someone's house, there will probably be a driveway that you could pull into if you feel it's necessary. Also, some farmers might get off the road for you. If you show a farmer respect, they will show you respect.
You commented about how you have tracks in your yard, but what about people who drive through farmers' fields? Why is this allowed?
On Oct. 19, when you were driving on 15, maybe if you wouldn't have been driving so close your car wouldn't have been pelted with corn. I highly doubt the corn is like driving in a hail storm. To get out of the thing you call a "hail storm," let off the accelerator and quit tailgating.
You say you have nothing against farmers and that you put your life in the farmers' hands. That's right, everyone puts their lives in farmers' hands, because without farmers there would be no food.
