Burning Straw Field

Georg Gerster

National Geographic

Farmers in Zealand, Denmark, burn off excess straw and stubble because the cost of collecting and transporting it is so excessive. But they burn off those hundreds of acres at a considerable risk. The reported loss of 'only one farm' in a day's burning was considered to be 'reassuring.'

Georg Gerster, "Burning Straw Field," in POYi Archive, Item #10355, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/10355 (accessed November 23, 2024).