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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
What did the farmers in your area call "pulling weeds out of soybean fields" (I'm assuming they didn't use that phrase). Around here we used "walking beans" which made sense because you spent the day walking between the rows chopping out any weeds you came across with a hoe. I got a job with a guy in Indiana who hired me to "chop beans." I thought I was going to drive a tractor pulling a flail chopper. Turned out I spent the day walking between the rows, chopping weeds out with a hoe for $1 an hour.
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Yup, 'walking beans' was used, wouldn't expect many here to know that term. I think they called it 'choppin' cotton' where that was grown.
We carried hoes but certain varietes of the weeds (and the volunteer corn) we were expected to pull out by the roots.
Jim