Farming is difficult enough given the caprices of Mother Nature, but it can become downright impossible when using a pesticide that kills rather than protects the crops. Just ask the 400 farmers and growers in 20 states who are suing E.I. du Pont de Nemours. Their suits charge that the chemical giant knowingly sold a contaminated fungicide that destroyed millions of dollars worth of crops of fruits and vegetables as well as nurseries of flowering bushes and ferns.
In the first suit to reach trial, now under way in Columbus, Georgia, growers claim that Du Pont had determined through its own...
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