Rachel Schmid, Sophia Schillinger and Sabine Martin/IowaWatch-Cedar Falls Tiger Hi-Line report

Large number of Iowa public schools in range of potential pesticide spray drift

Nine of every 10 public school districts in Iowa have buildings within 2,000 feet of a farm field, making students and teachers susceptible to being exposed to pesticides that drift from the fields when pesticides are sprayed. Yet many school officials interviewed for an IowaWatch/Tiger Hi-Line inve