Is there protection for Consumers at Farmers Markets?

There are always pros and cons when purchasing from local farmers markets. A con is insects. Insects destroy a lot of crops each year, leaving farmers with basically nothing. This makes hard for consumers to get high-quality, fresh produce and other items. Recently, I read a story on a website that was talking about protecting your corn from pests.

The article talked about how the three main creatures that t threaten to eat your corn crop earworms, cutworms, and seed maggots. Protecting against insects will require you to frequently check your corn crop. Corn earworms are bugs that you will need to watch out for the most. However, there are certain measures that you can do to protect your corn crop.

For starters, to stop the earworms from entering the tip of the corn husk, you can wrap a rubber band around the tip of the ear or attach a clothespin to the corn after the corn silk appears. This method will help minimize the damage earworms will do to your corn. Secondly, you can protect your corn plants by spraying an insecticide called BT or Bacilulus Thuringiensis that contains a particular bacterium which will affect and attack only the larvae of the corn invader. Some other pests such as cutworms, stalk borers and stink bugs that can destroy the corn stands as well even if you used a soil insecticide is used while planting. So this story can relate with any other crop not just corn. Protecting one's crops will reduce the risk of losing the harvest or selling bad produce.

Now for the consumer. If a farmer's produce is ravaged by pests, that means the produce you will purchase will not be fresh or there will be nothing to purchase at farmers markets. Where as at grocery stores, there is always some type of produce that's not to old or even fresh to purchase.