I can go over the 4' x 12' plots of October beans and pick off the bean
beetles and rup out the eggs with no pesticides at all. But if I had an acre of
them, I couldn't. The more "efficient" a farm (in the agribusiness definition
of efficient), the more it must use pesticides. But flea beetles will eat the
eggplants to the ground. There is a small sprayer with pyrhethrin on a stake
beside the eggplants and during the growing season it's either mist the
eggplants every other day or they die.
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