Lorne Hepworth, in his Jan. 27 letter toThe Western Producer,is very misleading in his assertion that organic producers have available and use the same pesticides as conventional producers.
All organic certification bodies have a seemingly endless list of biocides deemed too dangerous for use in organic food production.
As an organic producer, I confess to occasionally having some fields that I would like to call in the spray plane to assist in my battle with weeds, disease or pests.
However, the selection of conventional chemical herbicides, pesticides or fungicides are not organic options.
Even synthetic fertilizers are disallowed and legume inoculants have to be approved ingredient by ingredient. It seems a bit mischievous for Crop Life Canada … to portray all food production methods as equivalent and safe to our biosphere.
Lyle Wright,Kerrobert, Sask.
