Glyphosate from the neighbor. Spraying boundaries to residential buildings

Farmers count more as tinkerers than writers in terms of the "classification" of human types. They only correspond by letter with the district office

... and with the EU. What kind of image do you have of the farmer?

Normally, you go over, show him the dilemma and ask him to fix it.

Normally, in the sense of exemplary, it would have been that the farmer noticed his mistake, regretted it, and made suggestions on how to make it right again.

Well then, I am also for talking first*! So, stay calm, dear forum writers ;-).

(*Knowing one's rights and duties.)

Oh man... There must have been a guest worker sitting on the tractor who simply wasn't particularly interested. His boss won't know anything about it and the owner probably even less. The contact person here is the one who manages things on site. If he acts dumb in the conversation, you can always pull out the big stick.

Wow, what stress, isn't this a bit exaggerated? The stuff is gone again after 10 days of rain. When I read about soil replacement and stuff like that, one really has to wonder if that's not a bit over the top? The product is sprayed on most fields where our food also grows. Not that I want to start a fundamental discussion about how bad glyphosate is, but I'll boldly claim that all of us more or less constantly eat something that grew on a glyphosate-treated field (including those who only buy organic vegetables!).

So here’s the approach from the perspective of a countryside person: - Walk over to the farmer and kindly point out that his sprayer tank swung a bit too far over to your side, or maybe the wind just blew the wrong way. - Wait until it has rained a few times - The farmer comes by, reseeds the area and brings the beer for afterwards.

This way, in the long run, there’s a good neighborly relationship, and if you need the help of his machinery fleet in two years, it’s usually no problem. You can't undo it anyway now, even if the person affected sees their property as contaminated with glyphosate and finds it worse than, for example, I do. Speaking from the farmer’s perspective, I certainly wouldn’t dig up the area and replace the soil. Also, with what? With the soil from his fields? ;-)

Stay relaxed, then you’ll sleep much better! :-)

what do you actually want to achieve with the conversation? Compensation? Or to explain or reinforce your point of view once again?

Well, let's put it this way, when we bought the land there, the first sentence from the farmers was: "3m swing-rights must be observed." We didn't even know what they were talking about. So we informed ourselves, measured all distances exactly, and always paid attention. As a newcomer, you don't want to do anything wrong. Everything was fine except for neighbor X, who constantly plows into our land with his plow and simply cut down 3 giant deciduous trees next door without permission – not on our land, but there was a huge outcry in the village – the trees had cult status. The boundary stones were also plowed over and uprooted. So neighbor X is a real ax in the forest. Ok, I never said anything, we simply kept pounding in the corner posts again and again. But now he's scattering poison on my land and that's going a bit too far for me. I'd like to know the legal situation again now, so that this time I don't have to check afterwards but know in advance. So the goal is clear that they must observe the distances. If not the 2m, then perhaps at least 1m or something similar. You just have to talk it through.

Not that I want to start a fundamental discussion about how bad glyphosate is, but I’ll boldly claim that we all more or less constantly eat something that was grown in a glyphosate-treated field (including those who only buy organic vegetables!).

Yes, that’s how it is, although I’m not so sure about organic. And now think about that.

Hehe, that’s exactly the answer I expected. I’ll keep it short, since it has nothing to do with the topic. You only buy organic vegetables, which are simply not treated with such agents, okay. But what if you go to the Italian restaurant to eat a pizza, or the salad with the schnitzel, or the food in the canteen, etc. Even if you only buy organic, that doesn’t mean you don’t also eat (many!) other foods that, for example, have been treated with glyphosate. :-)