I love that wordage ......."thought". The obvious question is, thought by whom? That really does make as difference, as much as the libs would hate to admit it.
Furadan was a corn insecticide applied at planting 'in furrow". What that means is that it was off label, or illegal, to apply it on top of the ground where birds could pick it up. It would not even do the intended job, which was to control wireworms and seed maggots, if it was not applied right in the underground furrow with the seed, which was covered with 1 1/2"-2" of soil. The danger to birds with it was that sometimes a few granules would trickle out the planter as you turned around on the ends of the fields. Good farmers ran a harrow over the ends after planting to cover those granules and prevent birds ingesting them.
100 million is quite a stretch, IMO. But then again it
was "thought".
SRH
