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Crop Dusters Near Moses Lake

In the Palouse, a crop duster sprays a field of mustard plants. During the growining season, crop dusters dance like bees over the rolling fields of the Palouse. (Colin Mulvany/SR file photo)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
In the Palouse, a crop duster sprays a field of mustard plants. During the growining season, crop dusters dance like bees over the rolling fields of the Palouse. (Colin Mulvany/SR file photo)
In the Palouse, a crop duster sprays a field of mustard plants. During the growining season, crop dusters dance like bees over the rolling fields of the Palouse. (Colin Mulvany/SR file photo)

There are few things that farmers hate
like arthropods that masticate,
and so to stem the insect tide
they fill the skies with pesticide.

“The Bard of Sherman Avenue: Poems by Tom Wobker (Page 36).”

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog