A farmer named John from Tennessee who operates a large family farm responded an earlier post – What is Pesticide and GMO Drift – by stating “What about thousands of acres of Corn? And if you waited to pull the weeds at that size you have suffered a sizable yield loss already.” Another farmer John…
Tag: GMO. pesticides
“Four dog defense” by the cigarette, chemical and GMO industries
This defense was invented by the cigarette industry in the 1990’s against a barrage of lawsuits. Then it was used by the toxic chemical industry to keep their products on the market and force the EPA to back down even for know carcinogens. Now it has been carefully crafted and taught to big agricultural industrial…
What is Pesticide drift and GMO drift and how to control them
The issue of pesticide migration from farms that use them onto farms that do not has become an important problem in modern agriculture. Equally important is the problem of drift or migration of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) from farms that utilize them, onto neighboring farms that do not. When farms were all spread out in…