In yesterday’s public comments, Ginger Fedak, certified applicator for In Defense of Animals, said PZP was not a pesticide as some claim, refusing to look at the EPA fact sheet, apparently, and the restricted-use product report, which puts it on the same list as toxic chemicals.
She pointed to Spring Creek Basin as a shining example of wild horse management but ignored the disaster on the Maryland side of Assateague Island, with similar evidence now leaking out from the Currituck herd.
To her credit, she identified misuse of GonaCon Equine by the BLM, where mares receive a second dose of the pesticide thirty days after the first, not ninety days as specified in the directions.
This is not a problem to be resolved by a new project in ePlanning. It is a matter for law enforcement.
As stated on the label, “It is a violation of Federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling. A copy of this label must be in the possession of the user
at the time that the product is applied.”
The agency intends to use the product on the Reveille mares after a roundup that’s scheduled to begin today.
Hayden Ballard, a rancher and attorney specializing in natural resources, spoke about the economics of livestock grazing, noting that ranchers pay $300 to $650 per AUM, a price heretofore not seen or heard.
If that’s true, it’s easy to see what they want the horses off the range, where livestock operators pay $1.35 per AUM.
He did not say where those prices prevail.
Last year, the McGregor auction yielded an average of $31.36 per AUM.
Your host currently pays around $180 per AUM for hay, compared to $95 per AUM two years ago, a fine example of Bidenomics, where the one-horse pony and his illicit administration are hollowing out the middle class, not protecting it.
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