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asked me if I ever used any weed control,” Parrish stated. “I said yeah, Grazon. It was the first time he ever asked me anything about that.

“We both marveled at the fact that we’ve been doing this for five years and we’ve never had a problem,” he continued.

Parrish farms 350 to 400 acres of hay a year, but Waterpenny is his only mulch customer. Most of his other customers buy the hay to feed their horses, and they don’t want it to have weeds in it, he explained.

“It’s really too bad because [Bynum and Plaksin] are such hard workers and such an integral and viable part of the community” Parrish said. “It’s really hard to make a living off the land.”

The suspect hay was taken to Waterpenny last fall. Parrish said it is possible that it didn’t even come from his fields, because he buys some hay from other farmers.

He noted that he knows another hay farmer in Middleburg who sells mulch, and that man’s customers have not had any problems.

“I hope for their sake it’s not [something else], because the hay thing is curable,” he

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