I wish I was not sharing your concerns.
I grew up on a non-organic dairy farm and saw use of weedkillers and fertilisers, but not on the scale or at the intensity now employed. It’s frightening.
Prof. Coulson deserves a medal, one of the few scientists looking at this, and I hope his funding continues.
Even groups like the RSPB seem unaware of the issue: one of their officers, at a talk last year, was saying how they use pesticides on their East Anglian farm.
For you JD, your location for an allotment sounds difficult and I wish you the best. It’s like, does one have to watch this unfold?