Current Legal Rules Benefit Spray Applicators When It Comes to Pesticide Drift
Current Legal Rules Benefit Spray Applicators When It Comes to Pesticide Drift
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2016-09
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Goeringer, Paul
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Homeowners, landowners, pesticide applicators, and farmers are concerned about pesticide drift. It may injure a homeowner’s garden or flowers or ruin a neighboring farmer’s crop. While no Maryland court has considered the issue of liability from pesticide drift, courts in other states have. These decisions provide some guidance on how a Maryland court might handle the issue. Depending on the facts of the drift case, pesticide applicators and farmers could owe damages for nuisance or trespass case, or for uses inconsistent with the pesticide label.