Spraying and trespass

Vader

Member
Mixed Farmer
Just had to ask a family with small kids to get out of a field of wheat they were playing in. :mad:

So just thought to myself.
What would happen if you sprayed a field and then shortly after, family and kids trespass and walk through and get chemical on themselves and end up with rash reaction or ill?

Does farmer end up in trouble??
 

Still Farming

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Wales UK
Just had to ask a family with small kids to get out of a field of wheat they were playing in. :mad:

So just thought to myself.
What would happen if you sprayed a field and then shortly after, family and kids trespass and walk through and get chemical on themselves and end up with rash reaction or ill?

Does farmer end up in trouble??
They spray by here on a footpath with one signs up or nothing too?
Hope they got good insurance and friendly HSE contact???
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
People have taken to walking round the edges of fields next to us and we have a similar problem. Fortunately I have noticed them in time and stopped to let them move away but also wonder if I’m liable if they catch a dose even though they have no right to be there. Not always easy to see them behind high hedges etc but they are only a couple of metres from end of sprayer boom.
 

B'o'B

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Rutland
Read label and pass the buck up the chain to the chemical manufacturer, their lawyer will fight it better than any lawyer any of us can afford.
 

icanshootwell

Member
Location
Ross-on-wye
Agchems aren't that lethal. If the dilute spray was the dodgy do you really think they would ever be approved?
This guy does our spaying.
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Done him no harm.
 
Location
southwest
You are responsible for all people who come onto your property, whether invited or not.

And as you have just posted about it on a public forum, you can't claim ignorance.

But if you use pesticides as per the manufacturers instructions, you have taken all reasonable precautions. And, of course, you don't apply pesticides to the footpath, do you?
 

HarryB97

Member
Mixed Farmer
Chemicals rnt very harmful at all, like most things they are blown way out of proportion. I doubt they could prove they had been in the field within a certain timeframe of the sprayer anyway. If they have come in after you have sprayed it and are walking somewhere they shouldn't and you have done everything properly you can't do anymore than that!
 

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