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Farmers spray their agricultural crops to lessen the damage pests do to crops. Pests are biological organisms that disrupt production of crops and affect the quality and yield of crops planted for human consumption. When pests destroy crops, the damage also impacts the prices you have to spend when you purchase food for your families.

Farmers use crop protection products such as insecticides, herbicides and fungicides to control harmful pests that threaten their goods and income. They also have the option of using natural pest control methods to reduce or completely eliminate infestation. The farmers do so without harming you, their crops and other organisms that enrich farm soil.

Natural Methods Used to Destroy Farm Pests

Farmers protect you, the environment, their crops, and other beneficial organisms with the use of natural treatments. They do that by cultivating other plants and crops to attract and draw insect pests' attention away from agricultural main crops. There is also the unique method of introducing other natural insects, or even introducing small animals, where crops are growing that work effectively. These natural organisms then go to work feeding on the pests.

Natural pest control applications protect not only you and farm agriculture but your nearby livestock and pets as well. One of the main benefits of natural treatments is that it does not harm the environment. Perhaps the only downside to natural applications is that they take a lengthy amount of time to show positive results, and the treatment process is expensive. There is of course a quicker method, which is to chemically treat agricultural fields by chemically spraying the fields.

Benefits of Chemical Spraying

It is disheartening to learn that a very large percentage of all crops in America are destroyed by agricultural pests. Farmers cannot sit on their laurels when crops are gobbled up each year by destructive pests. They have to respond and spray the crops with chemical applications due to the severity of destruction. Nonetheless, they are required to use selective chemical spray pesticides responsibly.

Herbicide & Pesticide Chemical Spraying 

Herbicides and pesticides are used mainly to kill or diminish the number of insects and pest plants that attack agricultural lands. The treatments target areas where agricultural food plants are ingested by pests. Sometimes entire crop areas require aerial spraying. Despite all good intentions, there is the possibility that pesticides can negatively impact both you, the environment and animals nearby because they do release harmful toxins . Farmers thus exercise responsibility by carefully reading product labels before spraying their fields of plants. It is legitimate to use these products at recommended safe levels, and sometimes it's the only way to rid the plants of gross infestation that can destroy entire crops.