Regardless if you're a parent, a farmer, or just a landowner serviced by Crawford Electric you deserve to know what is being sprayed on your vegetation, when it's being sprayed, and the option to opt out of it.

Crawford Electric Cooperative needs to:

1) Obtain written consent from the landowner to spray herbicide. The document should also include what herbicides and/or chemicals will be used, and what subcontractor will be doing the work.
2) Notify the landowner when the spraying will occur at least 1 week in advance
3) If spraying does occur, Leave easy to read signage at the sight saying what herbicides and/or chemicals were sprayed, the size of the area sprayed, and what date and time it occurred.
4) Practice sensibility, keeping spraying to a minimum and not spraying before rain.

Not doing this leads to major safety concerns. Ourselves, our children, pets, livestock, guests, etc. should not be in the contaminated area or ingesting anything growing there. With the practices they have in place now you may not know they've sprayed until you see the dead vegetation. This year, it was right around harvest time. Spraying before rain leads to major health and safety concerns with runoff into nearby ponds and drinking water.

Crawford Electric Cooperative is excellent at doing what they do - supplying the people of Crawford County with electricity. We are all thankful for that. We are confident that, given the option, they would enjoy the cost savings and safety standards that go hand-in-hand with this new plan.