Teachers' Domain; Can Organic Farms and Mosquito Control Coexist?

Colchester neighborhood Farman Plimpton is a certified organic farm. Corn greens vegetables and we raise pigs and lambs and goats for dairy. As an organic farm the state plans to avoid Ron Meredith's property when they begin aerial spraying in southeastern Massachusetts to kill mosquitoes that may be carrying Eastern Equine Encephalitis Merabet doesn't buy it. The supposed to shut the spares off 300 yards. The wind could dissipate deposit that stuff anywhere including over our farm so I don't have a high degree of confidence in that system it's not been tested and proven as a precaution Merabet and other farmers have been directed to bring livestock inside for 48 hours and to hold off on harvesting produce for two days. That he says is bad for business. They'll be over ripe by the time you can re harvest so there will be an impact on the farmers. They're going to lose product and they're going to lose market share. Plimpton resident Tom Coyne agrees the spraying will be bad for farmers but says the benefits of controlling Eastern Equine Encephalitis outweigh the risks.

Well if I was so hurt we're just going to have to help them reimburse them for the loss . But right now the most important thing is to take care of the little kids. Coyne points to the two encephalitis deaths from last year. And though there haven't been any human deaths so far this year one horse has died and more than a dozen mosquitoes have tested positive for the virus. QUOIN says that's all the evidence he needs to be worried about the Mosquito bite. This just crazy. We did have the spray done we need it right away. The spring is expected to begin tomorrow night.