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TexasTowelie

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Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:13 AM Feb 2021

Weld County farmer sues chemical company over claims herbicide killed crops

The operators of a Weld County farm just outside of Fort Lupton are suing a Loveland agricultural chemical company over accusations that the firm used the wrong type of herbicide and ruined a crop of peppers.

Plaintiff Villano Farms LLC, which filed suit this week in Weld County District Court against Pinnacle Agriculture Enterprises LLC, claims to have planted 37 acres of pepper crops last year and contracted with the defendant to spray herbicide Triflurex HFP to treat the soil.

“Soon after the peppers were planted, (Villano Farms representatives) noticed that the crop was deficient,” according to the complaint.

Through conversations with Pinnacle employees, the plaintiff eventually learned that the device used to spray Villano Farms’ soil had recently been used to spray another type of herbicide called Atrazine without being cleaned between uses, the suit alleges.

Read more: https://www.dailycamera.com/2021/02/19/weld-county-farmer-sues-chemical-company-over-claims-herbicide-killed-crops/
(Boulder Daily Camera)

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