Mixed sound footage documenting field burning practices, field burning studies and the controversy surrounding the practice. The film includes scenes of hay being harvested, and fields being plowed and burned. The film also depicts a scientific analysis of creeping red fescue grass seed, presumably connected to field burning studies. Also shown are scenes from a public hearing that is also presumably connected to the controversy over air pollution caused by field burning. The film is mostly silent but does include interviews with a farmer discussing the benefits of field burning and efforts that have been made to reduce the pollution that it causes, and a government official about proposed legislation related to field burning.
Digitized from a film reel held in the Extension and Experiment Station Communications Moving Images (FV 120:080), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.
