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Mia Armistead rides a horse in six foot tall switchgrass on her father's farm off New Hope Road in Pike County.

Switchgrass grown on Pike farmland

Posted by

Rachel McDaniel

in Food and Features

Tuesday, November 17. 2009

Jesse "Butch" Armistead Jr. decided to experiment with planting switchgrass on his farm off New Hope Road after hearing former president George W. Bush discuss in his State of the Union address the use of the grass as an alternative energy source and reading research on its high yields.

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Tue, May 14, 2013 - 02:16 PM

It IS disturbing and a picture is worth a thousand words. Pike needs animal control.

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Tue, May 14, 2013 - 01:40 PM

Three horses owned by this family have been attacked by dogs - only one was killed. I did not use the graphic pict [...]

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Tue, May 14, 2013 - 10:57 AM

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