Jury holds pesticide appliers responsible for chemical drift
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SANTA CRUZ - In a victory for the state's organic farmers, a Santa Cruz County jury awarded a North County grower $1 million in damages after ruling that a pesticide company violated the farmers rights when its chemicals drifted with the fog onto organic crops.
http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_10593090?nclick_check=1
SANTA CRUZ - In a victory for the state's organic farmers, a Santa Cruz County jury awarded a North County grower $1 million in damages after ruling that a pesticide company violated the farmers rights when its chemicals drifted with the fog onto organic crops.
As a result, Jacobs Farm, which raises organic culinary herbs on about 120 acres in Wilder Ranch State Park, can continue to grow on that land free from chemical drift. In addition, organic farmers statewide can seek redress should pesticides, even those applied properly, somehow end up on their plants.
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