At 11:19 PM 8/30/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>I think to get totally free organic products with the work
>force we use (bees)is going to be almost a complete impossibility.  Of
>course, my thinking might be wrong in this.

I agree.  Virtually any human activity ouside the beekeepers control means
spraying is a good possibility.   This not only includes farm fields, but
roadways and drainage ditches  (as many counties, at least where I live,
spray to control both weeds, woody growth and insects along roads and
roadside ditches and drainage ditches.  In my part of Ohio the ground is so
flat many ditches have little grade to them so there often is stagnant
water.)  So even if one owned 2-3 miles in every direction, you still
couldn't control the spraying due to roads and county ditches.

The standard is virtually impossible to meet and completely unreasonable in
my opinion.

-Tim

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