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Yeah...but they aren't eating their kids!

Spray both insecticides and broadleaf herbicides in this region. In some instances substituted urea for annual grass control. Not aware of any aerial glyphosate use. Go to western Oregon and one could spray a community with distilled water and be sued for all the nine eyed babies born in the subsequent months.

As said it depends. Most grains just get herbicides unless they're having a really bad grasshopper year. Potatoes can get sprayed for potato bugs. Sugar beets just get herbicides. Hay doesn't generally get sprayed. Pasture can get herbicides but not very often.

Thanks for the viewpoint. Make sense.

Lawyers will be lawyers. When you make money off of fear you need to make sure it's maximized.

And when they grow up they move to Portland.

What about Soybeans?

Im not in the midwest but there is plenty of aerial applicators around here..... if your concern is a recent issue, it wasnt a chemical, it was seeding cover crop.... at least around there thats what they are currently doing.

Ive never had over spray issues with them at the house or on the farms.

They will spray pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides, and seeds.

They're mostly getting herbicides. Roundup ready strains would get glyphosate. It's been a good 30years since I had anything to do with it. Back then we'd do a residual pre emergent for grasses then maybe do a contact herbicide for broadleafs if we had to. The pre emergent was always sprayed from the ground and everything else usually was. Aircraft are expensive.

Ha you beat me to it; I like to do that at the grocery store myself.

For those that do not know about glyphosate is unlike most chemicals kill on contact. Once it hits its target or the ground there is no residual. It cannot be put on to suppress later weeds. I like this fact. In active form it cannot wash down stream or anywhere and become active. Edk

I do, and I wouldn’t trade it...

This was last week. That’s the Good Year blimp in the background.

Looks like the duster was dropping a bomb!

I have spent 40+ years as a ground applicator, We use a helicopter service for any arial application these days. Most air applications in midwest corn and soybeans is for plant diseases, ie Fungicides. I use all labeled precautions on all applications,I have never been sickened or endangered anyone in all those years. Very few times have we had to compensate for drift,Most applicators are very carefull as We live in this world also. Most complaints and problems are because someone goes off half cocked with partial information.

Sharting instead of dusting is a real concern.

On the neighbors farm LOL