Natural News<\/a>) Azure Farms is a working, Certified\u00a0Organic farm located in Moro, Central Oregon, in Sherman County. It has been Certified Organic for about 18 years. The farm produces almost all the organic wheat, field peas, barley, Einkorn, and beef for Azure Standard.<\/p>\nSherman County is changing the interpretation of its statutory code from controlling noxious weeds to eradicating noxious weeds. These weeds include Morning Glory, Canada Thistle, and Whitetop, all of which have been on the farm for many years, but that only toxic chemicals will eradicate.<\/p>\n
Organic farming methods \u2013 at least as far as we know today \u2013 can only control noxious weeds\u2014it is very difficult to eradicate them.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s Happening?<\/h2>\n
Sherman County may be issuing a Court Order on\u00a0May 22, 2017, to quarantine Azure Farms and possibly to spray the whole farm with poisonous herbicides, contaminating them with Milestone, Escort and Roundup herbicides.<\/p>\n
This will destroy all the efforts Azure Farms has made for years to produce the very cleanest and healthiest food humanly possible. About 2,000 organic acres would be impacted; that is about 2.8\u00a0times the size of the City of London, England, and 1.5 times the size of the city center of Philadelphia that could be sprayed with noxious, toxic, polluting herbicides.<\/p>\n
The county would then put a lien on the farm to pay for the expense of the labor and chemicals used.<\/p>\n