‘Defend 2,4,5-T’
PA Nelson Unless farmers. were prepared to defend the use of the herbicide, 2, .4, 5-T, with sound arguments, they could “say goodbye” to its use in future, said the senior vice-president of Federated 'Farmers. (Mr R. Storey) in Nelson, ' “It is probably true that if you serve up emotional statements long enough you can win any fight,” he told members of the Nelson provincial executive of Federated Farmers.
But he urged farmers to fight to continue to use the go r s e-controlling chemical by thorough, informed argument. “I think we must talk to Friends of the Earth and other environmentalists and show them the true situation,” Mr Storey said. In Wairarapa, a group of environmentalists was being taken to a block infested with gorse and tu-berculosis-ridden opossums and shown what the herbicide meant to farming.
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