Comments on: Organic Farm Awarded Compensation For Pesticide Contamination

By: Horacio Prada

Horacio Prada — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:52:01 +0000

I got an idea, build a giant bubble around every organiic farm to prevent toxic spray drift.

If this sounds absurd and crazy, consider the insanity of using pesticides in the first place. I’m saying, the folks that spray pesticides are INSANE.

By: Dale

Dale — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:30:28 +0000

All chemicals — pesticides & fertilizers — evaporate and move in the environment, regardless of how applied. So its impossible to control acts of nature that move these materials. Under the NOP, an organic grower has the obligation to ensure adequate buffer zones around his property to protect against such inadvertent contamination with coventional agricultural operations.

By: Anita

Anita — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:31:07 +0000

It’s amazing Western Farm Service can make the comment that Jacobs farm should not have come into an area where chemicals are being used. They called the herb farm “incompatible” for the area. We operate a non certified organic farm in central Illinois and deal with spray all season. Just because we don’t want to spray our crops doesn’t mean we have to accept spray from the corn and soybean growers in our area. To call another farmer’s crops incompatible just because they are grown without the use of chemical is true ignorance. It seems to us, the spray guys have the opinion they can spray when and where they want. It’s time for the chemical applicators to wake up and realize they can’t just pollute our environment, our children and our organic food.

By: James

James — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:47:20 +0000

This case had nothing to do with the organic certification held by the grower. The contaminated herbs are not registered for the pesticides, so any minute contamination renders the crops unsalable.