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- Burns KS usa
My house is about 100ft from a field, which normally is planted to corn or beans, sometimes it's wheat but then they plant beans in the stubble after the wheat is out.
We have Locus trees for a boarder around the property, my mom and dad planted those trees when they first got married and moved to this farm. All the locus trees have been dying out for the past several years and never really thought much about it. But we realized that they are all dying from the chemicals that they are spraying in the field. We have lost almost all of the trees, the ones that are alive are slowly dying limb by limb. Every time the COOP sprays (that's who the neighbor hires) it's normally a 20mph wind blowing right at us. We finally complained after they killed the garden and a fruit tree. They said "we never spray when it's windy" which we told them that is a lie. They also said "we didn't know that you had a garden" so I guess they didn't see the 2 30'x70 greenhouses sitting there in plain site????? even if I have a garden or not I still don't want my house dusted in chemicals. We are a chemical free farm and we are going to put up signs ASAP. After the COOP came out and we talked to them about spraying in the wind, they said "now that we know you have a garden we will make sure we spray when the wind is blowing the opposite direction of your farm and then a few weeks later the wind was about 20mph blowing right at us and guess who starts spraying .
I don't want to be one of those neighbors that's complaining about farm noises and dust. But these sprays are killing our little farm and they are killing us. We can't even work outside when they spray because the smell is so strong, to many people around here are dying of cancer and I know these sprays are the reason. We only have 3 acres here so we grow what we can, the 2 high tunnels are full of Ginger and Turmeric which are very high dollar crops and we sell it as "Chemical Free" which I'm starting to wonder if it is chemical free anymore. We have a acre garden on this property, fruit trees, berries and ect.
Anyone have any thoughts on what to do???
We have Locus trees for a boarder around the property, my mom and dad planted those trees when they first got married and moved to this farm. All the locus trees have been dying out for the past several years and never really thought much about it. But we realized that they are all dying from the chemicals that they are spraying in the field. We have lost almost all of the trees, the ones that are alive are slowly dying limb by limb. Every time the COOP sprays (that's who the neighbor hires) it's normally a 20mph wind blowing right at us. We finally complained after they killed the garden and a fruit tree. They said "we never spray when it's windy" which we told them that is a lie. They also said "we didn't know that you had a garden" so I guess they didn't see the 2 30'x70 greenhouses sitting there in plain site????? even if I have a garden or not I still don't want my house dusted in chemicals. We are a chemical free farm and we are going to put up signs ASAP. After the COOP came out and we talked to them about spraying in the wind, they said "now that we know you have a garden we will make sure we spray when the wind is blowing the opposite direction of your farm and then a few weeks later the wind was about 20mph blowing right at us and guess who starts spraying .
I don't want to be one of those neighbors that's complaining about farm noises and dust. But these sprays are killing our little farm and they are killing us. We can't even work outside when they spray because the smell is so strong, to many people around here are dying of cancer and I know these sprays are the reason. We only have 3 acres here so we grow what we can, the 2 high tunnels are full of Ginger and Turmeric which are very high dollar crops and we sell it as "Chemical Free" which I'm starting to wonder if it is chemical free anymore. We have a acre garden on this property, fruit trees, berries and ect.
Anyone have any thoughts on what to do???