This problem has been addressed in farm magazines. Most planters here in the Midwest use vacuum to hold the seeds against the metering disks. A fan or fans depending on the planter size sucks a little pesticide away from the seed and it ends up in the fan's exhaust and is blown into the air. It's carried by the talc or seed lubricant. Every time I start up my vacuum planter a cloud of dust comes out of the fan and I'm sure some seed treatment is in that dust. I'm sure changes are on the way.
By the way, 'real' farmers do not try to kill everything on the face of the earth except for corn and beans. A few farmers do get in a big huff and start spraying insecticide as soon as they see one bug on a plant whether it's economically feasible or not and I can name a neighbor of mine who does just that. As with every substance, some people abuse it. MOST do not. Only the very insensitive and unknowledgeable farmer doesn't care if beneficial insects are killed.
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