OrganicFarmWife
Crowing
I had both pekin and Muscovy and they did eat my collard greens and spinach, they also loved the pumpkin leaves but didn't touch the few squash plants I had left tomatoes and beans alone. Maybe the greens had bugs lol, they free ranged all the time and loved the garden. Got rid of them now.
No apologies needed we are here to learn. My local guy has signs of no spray on his farms as occasionally the county sprays for mosquitoes I gues or whatever but I always wonder since not all farms in our county are organic doesn't that defeat the purpose to some extent due to cross pollination?
So ducks are not really the answer, oh well good to know.
Our biggest problem is the county spraying the weeds. The roadside is theirs, nothing we can do to stop them from spraying it, but sometimes they get over excited and spray past the area they are responsible for. I think it is like ten feet? from the road.
We, organic farmers, use specialized varieties of seeds that do not cross pollinate. I think corn has a three mile radius. So if we plant corn and any neighbors plant corn as well then we must use a variety that does not cross. If we do not then the buyer, who tests for GMOs, will refuse the grain. Organic can be hybridized seed, just not genetically modified.