<p>Dustin Bedwell, left, and Lance Deacon, both with the Meyer farm, emerge from a smoldering bluegrass field on the Rathdrum Prairie Wednesday as 150 acres burned off after being harvested.</p>
August 19, 2010
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August 19, 2010 9 p.m.
Prairie burning begins
About 430 acres remain to be burned this summer
COEUR d'ALENE - White smoke blended with blue sky above the Rathdrum Prairie on Wednesday afternoon as farmers started field burning for the first time this summer.