>Randy, modern day seed treatments for corn and soybeans typically

> contain not only a neonicitinoid for preventive control of nematodes
> and insects but also two or three fungicides plus a beneficial bacteria
> product
>

Thanks Paul, I am aware of that.  My question is whether the benefit of
always adding an insecticide is worth the risk of promoting pest
resistance, not to mention the environmental effects of adding a perhaps
unnecessary insecticide to each and every seed.

>
> >The video also makes the point that even though results from seed
> treatment may vary, and performance may vary from location to location
> and from year to year they likely will pay off in the long run.
>

Actually, the payoff would be for the short run.  In the long run, all the
pests will become resistant to that insecticide.

>
> > The problem with that thinking is that such universal overuse of
> > any pesticide will insure that they will rapidly breed for resistant
> > pests, and thus end the usefulness of that particular pesticide.
>
> >Hypothetically, but are a majority of the actualy corn and soybean
> farmers complaining?


Hardly hypothetical--rather, a well-established fact.  And Paul, you surely
must have noticed that no one complains until a practice stops working.
 Foresight is in short supply.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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