>Jim Hock asks...  How did MN come to over
>ride the label law to begin with?

That's a long story of a Federally funded project, tied in with a State
Energy Agency.  No Environmental Impact Studies ever filed, due to a legal
loophole.  Add to that, this all sounded good to the ecology minded - plant
trees, harvest biomass.  But, everyone forget to include a management
plan.  Leaf chomping bugs showed up in hordes, and it was spray and spray
again.  This situation was so bad, I got a call from the State of MN, the
attourney for the state wanted me to testify for the state, even after I
pointed out that if I showed up in court, it would be on the side of the
beekeepers.  He didn't think that would be a conflict of interest, but I
turned him down flat.

The three MN beekeepers took this to court, and the lower courts handed
down decisions that would have made pesticide labels worthless.  The
beekeepers kept at it, on their own nickel.  And, they're not out of the
woods yet.

Jerry

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