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we’ve read, but the way this information is passed down the chain - from the chemical company to the pesticide applicator to the hay farmer to the people who buy the hay - seems like a big game of “telephone.” The message doesn’t come through clearly, or in our case even at all.
We hope that our very bad experience this year at Waterpenny Farm can have some positive effect. It already has sparked the flow of information on Rappnet about the use of herbicides in hay and the transfer and persistence of Picloram. This isn’t the first time that this chemical has caused problems on an economically significant scale. Currently, manure from any animal that has eaten hay of unknown origin in the county is a possible toxin, rather than a great source of organic material for your garden. Ask questions of your hay supplier.
If you are the steward of a conventionally managed hayfield in Rappahannock County, we hope that this stoiy will make you want to ask more questions of the people who sell and apply the chemicals. Ask for the labels, read them and evaluate the risk versus the benefit of the chemical before you decide to have the pesticide applied. Pesticide applicators are required by law to keep accurate records of spraying of controlled substances, such as Grazon, and you should keep a
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