Going to do a little Chem fallow

SVcummins · Aug 20, 2021

Round up lv4 and vision

Philip d · Aug 20, 2021

Do you wear a mask when your spraying? I never do and my wife doesnt like it. I was spraying grain a few years ago next to a windmill substation shop in an open tractor minding my own business then a supervisor from the shop stomped over and went up one side of me and down the other because I didnt give them 24hr notice that Id be spraying there with what the rate and time Id be there. I guess standing in the yard them minding their own business and someone pulling in spraying chemicals wouid be enough to alarm a lot of people but it sure made for a tense situation at the time.

SVcummins · Aug 21, 2021

Nope I never have wore anything for a mask . I figure my gooseneck hitch will get me long before the chemical will . Was you on your own ground spraying??

Philip d · Aug 21, 2021

Ya me either, I was on rented ground that is owned by a farm we trade land with sometimes whereas we dont grow potatoes and they dont grow grain so we do rentals and swaps each year. The windmill guys stopped in one day complaining that our manure pile in our own field had some runoff across the access road we own but they had to drive through because the guys at their shop dont like smelly tires. I really had to hold my tongue that day.
One guy got them pretty good one day though, he told them if thats how theyre going to roll than he wants the windmills all shut off when hes in his fields because he doesnt want to be exposed to the stray voltage from their transmission lines. They kinda backed off a little after that.

Geo-TH,In · Aug 21, 2021

My uncle was a lifetime farmer. He died of cancer. I wondered if all the chemicals he was exposed to had something to do with his cancer? Many people worked at a greenhouse died from cancer. Did all the chemicals have anything to do with cancer?

I not only wear a mask, I wear long pants, long sleeve shirt and walk into the wind when using backpack sprayer.

Free will, it's your choice. If I get any sprays in my nose, I get sick.

Even paint spray and fine sawdust, oak is the worst.

SVcummins · Aug 21, 2021

You wont ketch me out side in anything but long pants and long sleeve shirt . All the chemical probably is related to it. Both of my grandpas sprayed for many years and never died of cancer and that was in the old days when nobody knew or cared about what chemical might do to you

Philip d · Aug 21, 2021

It seems to affect us all different, my Dad got sick from spraying one time ,all his fingernails eventually fell off and he lost all the feeling in his fingers. His nails grew back but the feeling never did return to his fingers. He would get burns without realizing it, drop tools or crush delicate things by accident because he couldnt tell how hard he was squeezing things. He had multiple myeloma in later years they blamed on grease over the years. I get a really sore throat if someones spraying certain chemicals on potatoes

SVcummins · Aug 21, 2021

Some of that potato stuff is really really bad Im extra careful around the fungicide and insecticide and miticide . I never spray any of that though

Northvale PA · Aug 22, 2021

I went to school and work in Delaware. It has one of the highest cancer rates in the nation. It is NOT because all the people were farmers. It is because some nasty stuff got dumped into the various urban streams and rivers which eventually got into peoples drinking water. Industry was the culprit of the past.

SVcummins · Aug 22, 2021

I can see that happening here with all the mines around they worry me a lot more than chemical does

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