On 4-Nov-13, at 9:22 AM, randy oliver wrote:

>
> But to continue to treat all seed with any single insecticide year  
> after
> year is just plain stupid.  Such unnecessary overuse not only  
> contaminates
> the environment, but will rapidly lead to resistant pests, and thus  
> shorten
> the effective economic life of that particular insecticide.  The seed
> companies are doing a disservice to both the farmers and the  
> environment by
> not making this clear to the growers, and providing cheaper  
> untreated seed.
>
Hi Randy and all

Thanks for that Randy.  I would add that not only are farmers doing  
as you say but they are planting the same crop year after year after  
year (mostly corn around here) in the same fields.  Whatever happened  
to crop rotation?

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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