Probably depends on what you wish to prove, some study will eventually prove it.
Farmers tend to have a longer life expectancy, from getting more exersize.
As we modernize and implement more EPA and OSHA regulations, we have less exposure to dust and work, but we are getting fatter and lazier now. Hydro licks set everything, auto steer drives everything, electro-hydraulics move everything. Farmers sit in the cab munching chips.....
Then the chemicals used back in the 1960-1980s were pretty harsh, today we use less harmful, and lower doses of them, but it is all the products that people complain about - gmo crops and shorter lasting herbicides. I guess we are supposed to go back to the harsher chemicals of the past.....???
So, well, what are the answers?
I presume we will always have more questions than answers.
I have found that most studies on ag seem to involve studies dating back to the 1960s for their 'current data' and that kind of troubles me, a lot has changed in ag in the last 30 years. Back then the insecticides were pretty harsh and in open containers, you applied herbicides by counting the gluggs as you poured, you used open station tractors and self propelled tractors, etc.
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