Sunday, February 7, 2016

FARMERS ANGERED BY HOURS OF NEONICS PAPERWORK

 The province argues that neonics are killing honeybees. The Grain Farmers of Ontario say the province is short on science and is siding with environmentalists.
Report from eastern Ontario. 
More acres; more paperwork in western Ontario.   
That didn’t include the half-day course required to use neonics or the actual scouting for pests, which added several weeks and many hours completing the digging of  the government-required five holes for every 100 acres — that’s 800 holes over the 4,000 acres on the Reynold's farm — to set bait for wireworms and grubs.
It's all unpaid work for farmers.

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