Re: Re: You Could Be Next

Posted by JDJIM on December 22, 2002 at 08:37:13 from (67.36.100.76):

In Reply to: Re: You Could Be Next posted by Ed on December 22, 2002 at 07:21:24:

Glad uou brought up chenicals we use :
I'm in north central Illinois , mostly corn and soybeans and a few beef cows . About 100 mi down stream fron the Chicago complex you all know what that is .
I have to have a permit called "Private Pesticide Applicators License" issued by the state ag department after a two hour test . Have to show this to supplier before I can purchase any chemical to use on crops . Now any urban homeowner can go to Wallyworld etc and buy Roundup , 2-4d or anything else to use on their lawn without any permit etc .
I heard this from farm group sources but it was also on the Paul Harvey "Rest of the Story" one day , statement was " there are ten times the amount of chemical concentration per acre used on lawns , golf courses , parks etc than on an acre of cropland . Now where does this runoff go to ? Does it go to a different river than the farm land ? We get blamed for all of this . I guess it's easier to blame us because we are a minority now days and it would be really bad to have a weed in a lawn around a $250,000 house .
There is a lot more to this but I guess I've went on long enough . I just get tired of us farmers being blamed for all the polution .
By the way I forgot about the MTBE blended with gasoline in California , was supposed to cut down on polution , didn't they find harmfull side effects from that ? Could have blended Ethanol with the gas been using it here for 25yrs . Ethanol made from good old US Cornbelt corn , not imported .

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