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my property’ after a helicopter
dropped_fertilizer on Vantreight
Farms’ daffodil field between Stel-
lys Crossroad and Wallace Drive
about 5 p.m. Thursday.

Before 7 a.m. Friday the heli-
copter was back, this time apply-
ing a liquid fungicide to the daffo-
dil field:

field as the helicopter dropped
fertilizer.

Pesticide contro] branch spokes-
man Dan Cronin said there are
regulations that persons aerially
applying fertilizer and fungicides
must follow.

He said there is no requirement
for permits by the individual farm

DROPPING A LOAD of fertilizer on a daffodil field is a
- helicopter equipped with a sling and spray box between

@Siellys Crossroad and Wallace Drive, Thursday about 5 p.m.
Despite radio communication from men on the ground,
some fertilizer ended up on neighboring property. cLenn werkmaNn

Evans raises about 50 chickens
and a dozen ducks for eggs and
also has organic fruit trees.

“This raises quite a few ques-
tions,” Evans said. “Why can’t
this be done by a tractor. It was just
so hap-hazard, it was coming
down on my bam and house.”

Owen, husband to renowned
equestrian rider and trainer Lynn
Owen, said four horses kept in a
paddock near his home were
spooked by the chopper and could
have escaped. Two of the horse are
“very valuable.”

“They didn’t warn anyone by

e — courtesy,” Owen said. “We could

_have had the horses inside.”

Ian Vantreight of Vantreight
Fanms said there are some people
the farm calls, who have requested
notification, and they will con-
tinue to do it “as long as it doesn’t
get to the point where we have to
phone 450 people at a time.”

Vantreight said it’s the same
spraying program they've been
doing for years and it’s perfectly
safe.

Approvals were received from
the pesticide control branch for the
helicopter service to apply the
material to the field, he said.

Workers have been busy in the
fields picking the daffodils and

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substances must hold a pesticide
control service licence, have a
pilot certified for pesticide appli-
cations and theyre obligated to
follow product labels.

Cronin said: “I don’t think this
(fungicide) has the ability to cause
severe effects to people in that
application.”

The fungicide has'a low toxicity
and can cause irritation to the eyes,
throat and nose only when the
applicator is in contact with its
concentrated form for a long per-

regional director Dick Heath said
his department has no jurisdiction
over fertilizer applications because
no pesticides are in fertilizer.

A Ministry of Agriculture spo-
kesman said the district agricul-
ture office isn’t investigating the
incident.

Both Evans and Owen said
theyre supporters of the agricul-
tural land reserve, “but this is a
quiet area (and) I object to having
this stuff dropped on my prop-
erty.”

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