Battle over chemical splits Ark. farmers

摘要

The Arkansas State Plant Board stepped into a raging pesticide battle by voting Friday to impose an unprecedented ban on a chemical. Hundreds of farmers say their crops have been damaged by a weedkiller that was sprayed on neighboring fields. "It's fracturing the agricultural community. You either have to choose to be on the side of using the product or on the side of being damaged by the product," said David Hundley, who manages grain production for Ozark Mountain Poultry in Bay, Ark.