Can the indiscriminate and uncontrolled use of weedicides, pesticides and crop fertilizers be a certain cause for the reported increase of cancers in Viti Levu?.
It cost an average of 19% more to raise an acre of corn in 2022 than it did the year before, but thanks to high commodity prices, farmers will mostly remain profitable. High costs are likely to persist into 2023, setting up a riskier bet for income potential.
to jump and surge. but even worse producers are resorting to use human waste to help grow crops. yeah read that right. joining me now is someone on the frontlines of this fight ben neil who owns farm in oklahoma. ben thanks for spending sometime with us can you explain this here? are there dangers to using this what they call i guess sludge as a crop fertilizer i ve read stories about this that don t seem they just something doesn t sound right about this. yeah. you know, cdc estimate what is 5,000 people a year die from food born illnesses, and you know, if we start increasing the practice of using, you know, raw sewage as fertilizer i think those numbers are only gong to continue to go up. it is not something that i would recommend us doing. dan: what is this a common practice in the industry? aye been reading about it. i guess called sludge they treat it to some respect but people
to jump and surge. but even worse producers are resorting to use human waste to help grow crops. yeah read that right. joining me now is someone on the frontlines of this fight ben neil who owns farm in oklahoma. ben thanks for spending sometime with us can you explain this here? are there dangers to using this what they call i guess sludge as a crop fertilizer i ve read stories about this that don t seem they just something doesn t sound right about this. yeah. you know, cdc estimate what is 5,000 people a year die from food born illnesses, and you know, if we start increasing the practice of using, you know, raw sewage as fertilizer i think those numbers are only gong to continue to go up. it is not something that i would recommend us doing. dan: what is this a common practice in the industry? aye been reading about it. i guess called sludge they treat it to some respect but people
to jump and surge. but even worse producers are resorting to use human waste to help grow crops. yeah read that right. joining me now is someone on the frontlines of this fight ben neil who owns farm in oklahoma. ben thanks for spending sometime with us can you explain this here? are there dangers to using this what they call i guess sludge as a crop fertilizer i ve read stories about this that don t seem they just something doesn t sound right about this. yeah. you know, cdc estimate what is 5,000 people a year die from food born illnesses, and you know, if we start increasing the practice of using, you know, raw sewage as fertilizer i think those numbers are only gong to continue to go up. it is not something that i would recommend us doing. dan: what is this a common practice in the industry? aye been reading about it. i guess called sludge they treat it to some respect but people