Hopefully spray drift won't be a common occurrence for you. Things do go wrong and obviously did. Just a thought could the sprayer have kicked up pollen? Sprays are generally safe. Binding agents can smell a bit. But nature doesn't care an awful lot with pollen. Pollen counts tend to be high after damp weather a sprayer would be similar.
As a farmer I hate the fact spray manufacturers seam to rely on us professing their products are safe. The public should understand we want them safe, effective and targeted.
There really should be more clarity. Manufacturers do need to put it out there that they're safe and show us proof.
I did look online and I found some horrible info, fear mongering stuff. I'm not sure where it has come from, what studies were done and if they could prove the damage to life. It's a bit like the EMF argument.
Either way, I don't fancy the drift getting onto us or entering our house every time they spray, which I'm sad to say has been happening. Every time we've been there anyway. I still don't know who the farmer is and I'd like to just ask them to create a buffer zone for us so it's not right up to our garden or overhanging the road opposite. We're putting fencing up so we're not planning to pinch their land.
And yes, I'm sure you want them safe too seen as you have to work with them. I guess you too are relying on manufacturers claims that they are safe. I do hope they are, for all of us, especially our children. We do have very right to question this though, all of us. Famers and public. At the end of the day you're paying a lot of money for this and then we're potentially inhaling it and it's on our food.
Thank you for your reply. There has been some fab and honest responses on here . Some weird ones too but I'll just ignore though ;-)