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Politics may, as the saying goes, make for strange bedfellows, but they can sometimes set natural allies in opposition. That, it seems, explains the striking divide between those for and
Beekeepers swarmed in opposition last week to a proposal to let farmers use drones to spray pesticide that they say could decimate their hives and colonies.
Farmers and beekeepers seem like natural allies, but they disagreed Thursday on House Bill 1698, which would allow people to spray pesticides from drones without first notifying neighbors.