From the Big River Magazine, the January-February 2025 issue, I’ll read Reggie McLeod’s “From the Riverbank” column Nicotine Memories” and John Lyon’s article titled Neonics- Where Are the Mayflies? John Lyons is the fish curator at the University of Wisconsin Zoological Museum, Madison. When I read this article I knew it should be heard by as many people as possible.
From the article,
Preventative treatments of seeds with neonics are the norm in the Upper Midwest. For example, in Wisconsin, excluding organic seeds, which are untreated, about 100 percent of corn, 60 percent of soybeans, 92 percent of potatoes, 90 percent of snapbeans, 40 percent of onions, and 35 percent of pea seeds are covered with neonic solutions before planting. and further on he writes, “…30 percent of farmers surveyed didn’t know their corn seeds contained neonics.”
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