despite his reservations georg meyer huffer experiments with organic practices now and then this year he did not use any insecticide on the rate seed he grows for human consumption today he wants to see if that's made a difference. it's one of us many u.s. citizen befalls we're seeing here is an infestation of rape stem weevils for me the feeling for me as a farmer it's always very hard to gauge exactly what the pesticide does the vehicle museum is react to but you don't know exactly what effect it's had. with noir but i'd like to try new things out and as a beekeeper i wanted to see if doing without pesticides is a viable option you know. it's all down to the harvest is often not all that often given the infestation we're seeing here it's not looking promising. to switch to organic farming is a time consuming process and calls for a lot of patience crops and soil need to adjust after years of conventional farming . my whole force experiment with rape seed has cost him 25 percent of his usual yield next year he'll go back to spraying his crops with conventional farming crop losses are