04-16-2017, 04:22 PM
It is certainly possible to compare the likelihood of rat lungworm on a farm by its environment and practices.
I spoke with a large commercial / conventional lettuce grower from Waimea a few weeks ago (see page 5 of this thread). He said they often had slugs and snails in their presumably weed free, mulch free fields, and when they did they applied bait/granules. He said they did not have a concern about rat lungworm despite the presence of slugs, because the disease is not an issue in their area.
The possibility of rat lungworm on that commercial / conventionally grown lettuce farm would be quite real if the rat lungworm parasite were ever detected there. Do you have a similar example directly from a farm (or other than a website of questionable objectivity) which proves your assertion that slugs definitively exist only at organic farms and not commercial/ conventional farms? I provided a real world reality based observation that slugs can be found at both types of farms. Would you be able to offer more than the hypothetical - - there's mulch, therefore there might be rats, therefore possibly rat lungworm?
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I spoke with a large commercial / conventional lettuce grower from Waimea a few weeks ago (see page 5 of this thread). He said they often had slugs and snails in their presumably weed free, mulch free fields, and when they did they applied bait/granules. He said they did not have a concern about rat lungworm despite the presence of slugs, because the disease is not an issue in their area.
The possibility of rat lungworm on that commercial / conventionally grown lettuce farm would be quite real if the rat lungworm parasite were ever detected there. Do you have a similar example directly from a farm (or other than a website of questionable objectivity) which proves your assertion that slugs definitively exist only at organic farms and not commercial/ conventional farms? I provided a real world reality based observation that slugs can be found at both types of farms. Would you be able to offer more than the hypothetical - - there's mulch, therefore there might be rats, therefore possibly rat lungworm?
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