A roundup of pesticide drift coverage
Ethicurean - 7/26/2009.Chemical standoff: Farm country residents mostly “grin and bear it” when pesticides from neighboring farms drift onto their property, but some are speaking out. In Illinois, a vineyard owner tires of watching clouds of 2,4-D engulf (and kill) his grapes when a nearby farm sprays. A retired minister gives up on raising Peregrine falcons after pesticide drift kills all of the embryos he’d bred. Another resident watches his two kids be hit with a poison cloud and is unable to get the spray company on the phone to determine what pesticide had been used. |
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‘Lost season’
Bangor Daily News - 7/25/2009.By Sharon Kiley Mack – Farmers are watching their hay crops being ruined and their feed corn shrivel as rain continues to plague Maine’s farming industry. “Everything is just devastated,” Dr. Rick Kersbergen of the Waldo County Cooperative Extension said Friday. |
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Gorgeous, rugged perennials attract nectar-loving insects
Bangor Daily News - 7/25/2009. By Reeser Manley – Peter Beckford and I are standing in the middle of one of Rebel Hill Farm’s production fields, looking down on a small bed of native coneflowers, discussing their importance as nectar plants for bees and butterflies. Peter points to a broad patch of common milkweed flowering in the distant corner. “We saw a monarch there yesterday,” he says. “They are moving north with the flowering of milkweeds and soon we will find their caterpillars on those plants. |
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