North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[bruce <rural@threeriverwb.net>]

Farmers in my state (Nebraska) have the same clueless attitude towards 
chemicals. Years ago a crop duster sprayed the wrong field by mistake, 
when a farm wife was in it. She and her husband joked that they got 
"free"  coverage on their field. Next year she was dead of cancer. I've 
also seen farmers in their pickups out in fields while the spray plane 
flew right over them, spraying.

On 6/7/2006 9:24:21 AM, mauch1@aol.com wrote:
> An image that searred itself into my brain is one I experienced
> as I drove down a road in Lancaster county. An Amish
> man, driving his team of horses with the man standing on
> a platform spraying something on his field* with him not
> wearing any protective gear, and his dog (I assume his) racing
> along side and sometimes behind directly in the spray.
>
> *-Alright - it 'could' have been organic, but I suspect
> not, and 'organic' is not equivalent to 'harmless'.