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Recently moved about 200 feet from a Cherry Orchard-- when they spray pesticides the stink is very bad and sometimes you find residue-- what is the acceptable limit for pesticide drift?
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∙ 14y ago
It depends on where you live. Farmers and orchardists should ensure that weather conditions are such that there is no appreciable drift to neighbouring properties. Surprisingly there are few juristrictions that actually say what appreciable means and of course will depend on the pesticide. If they are spraying with sulphur which stinks but is not really harmful (it is considered organic and is used to kill fungus it will smell like rotten eggs.) then you may have to put up with the smell. You did choose to live near an orchard after all. Because you can see a residue means the pesticide is likely to be a wettable powder at least that eliminates the most toxic carbimates. If they are spraying something more harmful like organophosphates (the stinky ones smell more like bad cabbage examples that smell like this are Orthene and Chlorpyriphos) then you chould complain to the orchardist or the local council authorities. A less harmful pesticide are synthetic pyrethroids which smell like gasoline as it usually dissolved in xylene with an emulsifier. If they have been spraying recently then they cannot spray anything too toxic as the withholding periods for these were weeks ago as the cherry harvest is underway now in most of the Northern hemisphere.
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