Johnny Appleseed Holdings Ltd as been fined $14,000 for an illegal agrichemical spray drift after a pair of cyclists were covered in chemical spray. Photo / SuppliedA Hastings orchard has been fined $14,000 for an illegal agrichemical spray drift after two cyclists were covered in chemical spray. Johnny Appleseed Holdings Ltd pleaded guilty in the Hastings District Court on Wednesday to discharging agrichemicals into the air on September 23, 2019. The cyclists were riding along a path bordering an orchard in Otene Rd, Hastings, while a spray operator employed by Johnny Appleseed was working in the orchard. Judge Melinda Dickey fined the company $14,000 for the breach of the Hawke's Bay Regional Resource Management Plan.

Source: New Zealand Herald December 16, 2020 00:22 UTC