Dear Editor:
The farmers are busy during this hot, sunny weather, gathering in crops.
The corn stands eight feet tall and out in tassle. Hay is cut, raked and baled to feed animals.
Wheat is separated by hulking machines meant to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Chopped straw is bedding for the poultry industry.
The signage is posted at the gate. One of these farms is scheduled to be excavated for another gravel pit here in Puslinch.
Oh well, perhaps if we sharpen our teeth we can eat gravel some day instead of bread.
A soybean field is waiting for decisions to be made about its future next to the Hanlon Expressway.
A voice is out there (Senator Rob Black) pleading for change and putting on the brakes for the loss of precious agricultural land in exchange for more housing, more gravel extraction, industrial buildings and more highways full of cars.
The truth is, once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Liz Hughes,
Puslinch