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Sioux County, NWIA | Yea . . . sounds like the mechanism by which paraquat kills is relatively slow . . . but irreversible. Gives a person plenty of time to ponder the consequences of their deed.
The reason I got to looking into Paraquat had to do with a severe spray drift incident. My farm place is in the middle of a quarter section of no till ground. I and my family were all outside when the guy that farms the ground sprayed pre-plant burndown for soybeans. All the stars were lined up for a bad spray drift situation, and that spray drifted all the way across my place. We felt the droplets on our faces and we were hundreds of feet down wind of the sprayer. All our fruit trees were defoliated. There was burned spots from droplet contact on broadleaves all across the place and even up in the air a ways on the tree leaves. I called the guy the next day and told him what happened. He was very apologetic about it, and also assured me there was no paraquat in the mix, which was what I was rather concerned about. We didn’t lose the fruit trees but we haven’t had fruit on them either since that happened in 2023. | |
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RFK jr. making old school farming great again
