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Just because it was bought to my attention recently:
http://news.sciencemag.org/europe/20...noid-ban-court
Bayer and syngenta are apparently fighting the ban.
I'm actually surprised at this, I thought they might fund the NFU and European equivalents rather than try it themselves but hey ho. Note that the article is dated august 2013, I thought I'd watch for a little while and see what noise was out and about, but it seems pretty quiet.
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The wildlife strips that were showing up seem to disappear and then re -appear depending on the crop being planted
Am I wrong about that, surely that would be pretty nonsensical
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Neonicotinoids are back in the news again. Countryfile on BBC1 had its usual impartial but inconclusive report on Sunday’s programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...yfile-oxenhope you find it at 13 minutes. Also this appeared on the BBC news site yesterday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27980344 I was sitting on the fence but now I’m starting to wobble!
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I have been amazed this year how often spraying goes on
On soft fruit like raspberries in the open field it seems almost constant
Wheat and potatoes seem to get similar attention
This is going on in the middle of the day in good weather
Course it all drifts onto everything else in the surrounding areas
Honey Bees might not be the best indicators of the effects
We know the flying bees are relatively short lived so shortening of their life might be not fatal to the colony
In all the surrounding fields a large number of land drains have been installed in response to the flooding
That means the run off makes it way into streams burns and rivers more quickly
I don't know what is being sprayed a lot of fungicides obviously
It won't stop till a better solution comes along
Its an economic issue really and I would say that moving subsidy from crops that require chemical inputs to crops and methods that reduce the need for them is the possible way forward.
I have about 20 rows of potatoes which took a lot of work to put in earth up etc
I haven't sprayed anything on them for blight ( there is only Diathane 945 anyway)
I am growing Sarpo varieties and very early varieties to try and make the end result worth while
If I was a farmer with acres of crop I don't think I would be able to resist spraying them either
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