Market Farming

["Shoemaker, William H" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>]

That is sickening. These chemicals are not highly volatile, unlike dicamba or 2,4-D, which means that they were blown onto your field as spray drift. They came directly from the sprayer during high wind conditions, which is an illegal application. They should not be applied under conditions of wind speeds above 10 mph. As you know, I'm sure, that stipulation is often ignored by commercial applicators in the Midwest, because they would never get all their contracts filled if they complied. I hope WI has better regulatory enforcement than IL does. I hope you get this worked out favorably.

Bill

William H. Shoemaker

Retired fruit and vegetable horticulturist

University of Illinois

wshoemak AT illinois.edu

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From: Market-farming [market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] on behalf of Mike Brabo [mdbrabo AT att.net]
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2018 2:42 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Addition to 2017 summary/update

Although there’s much dicamba damage in our area it was Glufosinate (cousin of Glyphosate/RoundUp), Metolachlor and two other chemicals that blew across our orchard, herbs, 3+ acres of vegetables and pasture.

Spray company is hiring behind lawyers.

On Jan 1, 2018, at 2:24 PM, Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net> wrote:

On Jan 1, 2018, at 2:18 PM, Mike Brabo wrote:

Thank you Karen for the detailed and hope-filled update.  

While our farm was not in the path of a hurricane, our organic/CNG farm was destroyed by a different airborne assault.  Herbicide spray drift blew completely across our farm in late June.  

We press onward.

Mike & Carol Brabo

Vesterbrook Farm

Clarksville, MO

-- was that dicamba?

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