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Crops sprayed with chemical, killed
Associated Press
August 20, 2004
LaPORTE-- A farmer lost eight acres of corn valued at $30,000 after someone filled a crop sprayer with weed killer instead of insecticide.
"It couldn't have been accidental or a mistake. It was obviously done purposefully by someone," Mike Garwood said Thursday.
Police said Garwood noticed the crop appeared unhealthy on Aug. 12, shortly after it was sprayed. By Saturday, all eight acres of corn on the parcel at Garwood Orchards had turned brown.
Garwood told police he suspected a disgruntled former employee poured herbicide into the sprayer's tank after being fired. Another worker who later sprayed the crop did not realize that the tank contained the wrong chemical.
"It took us about a week to notice it," said Garwood.
Garwood said the two gallons of weed killer in the tank was enough to kill about 25 percent of the corn planted on the farm about 30 miles west of South Bend.
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