Swanson v. Carlson

WOLFE, P.J.,

The pleadings being closed, defendants have filed a motion for judgment thereon. Plaintiff leased 26 acres of farmland from defendants on a year-to-year term for the purpose of growing hay for use in plaintiffs dairy farm *343operation. The lease arrangement commenced in 1972, at which time plaintiff planted what is known in the science of agronomy as “birds-foot trefoil,” a hybrid hay used as fodder for cattle and may be harvested two times per year in this area. Since the planting of this crop of hay, plaintiff has yearly harvested it until notice was given him by defendants on…