{"id":29445,"date":"2011-08-03T07:01:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T07:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=29445"},"modified":"2011-08-03T07:01:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T07:01:04","slug":"article_23723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_23723\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic Farmers Can Sue Conventional, GMO Farmers whose Pesticides &#8216;Trespass&#8217; and Contaminate Their Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For related articles and more information, please visit OCA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/organlink.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All About Organics page<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/gelink.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Genetic Engineering page<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/monsanto\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Millions Against Monsanto page<\/a>, and our <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/state\/MN.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota News page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Purveyors of conventional and genetically-modified (GM) crops &#8212; and the pesticides and herbicides that accompany them &#8212; are finally getting a taste of their own legal medicine. Minnesota&#8217;s Star Tribune has reported that the Minnesota Court of Appeals recently ruled that a large organic farm surrounded by chemical-laden conventional farms can seek damages for lost crops, as well as lost profits, caused by the illegal trespassing of pesticides and herbicides on its property.<\/p>\n<p>\tOluf and Debra Johnson&#8217;s 1,500-acre organic farm in Stearns County, Minn., has repeatedly been contaminated by nearby conventional and GMO farms since the couple started it in the 1990s. A local pesticide cooperative known as Paynesville Farmers Union (PFU), which is near the farm, has been cited at least four times for violating pesticide laws, and inadvertently causing damage to the Johnson&#8217;s farm.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe first time it was realized that pesticides had drifted onto the Johnson&#8217;s farm in 1998, PFU apologized, but did not agree to pay for damages. As anyone with an understanding of organic practices knows, even a small bit of contamination can result in having to plow under that season&#8217;s crops, forget profits, and even lose the ability to grow organic crops in the same field for at least a couple years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purveyors of conventional and genetically-modified (GM) crops &#8212; and the pesticides and herbicides that accompany them &#8212; are finally getting a taste of their own legal medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1031],"tags":[2,7,24],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Organic Farmers Can Sue Conventional, GMO Farmers whose Pesticides &#039;Trespass&#039; 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