Agricultural field burning in Oregon's Willamette Valley
has been an accepted farming practice for sanitizing fields and removing
stubble and residues left on fields after harvest since the
early 1940s. Unfortunately, the smoke and debris created by the
burning in combination with other pollutants have been causing health
and environmental problems in many parts of the Willamette Valley.
Due to the probable increase of these problems and the increasing demand
by citizens to stop the burning, a search for alternative uses for
grass seed and for open field burning lands has become an important
issue and is the focus of this paper
