Roundup

[hedgehog]

pre harvest roundup will be banned in europe, and that will screw up the no till boys.
tractor drivers will be back in demand.

[biglentil]

Preharvest herb might be banned but how would that screw the no till boys. I have never preharvest herbed my wheat or mustard and always straight cut. It wouldnt bother me one bit if they banned roundup preharvest herb.

[blackpowder]

Here, one of three things has to kill the crop. Frost, steel, or spray. We'll find another chem.
Or dry it I guess. #keeptheswather

[oneoff]

It wouldn't matter if it was pure distilled water coming out of that sprayer.
Its sprayers period that are being targeted.

[oneoff]

And the proof of that is that while even a couple of ounces of 2,4-D (weeks before any seed thought of being formed) would do wonders for yellow mustard control.

That fact was recognized by even ALL our ancestors and family members. Even as early as before the 1950's when 2,4-D powder in very limited quantities was first obtained by visionary members of such organizations as Agricultural Societies.


Read your history if you can;t see what happens before your very eyes on an hourly basis.

[blackpowder]

[checking]

I come to like those photo shopped spraying pictures that optics show trampling 10% of a ripened, but weed free cereal crop. That should be a good thing for the consumer; less poison food in the harvest hopper.

Even better when the spray, don't want to miss that effect, is a deep solid white with drift action that goes off the photo.

And then the crowning glory from farmacy.com. You, consumer, are being poisoned.

How does the average age of practicing farmers get to be government recorded as 60? Meaning that there are a lot who are much older than that, and all closer to the spray action than the majority consumer of their poisoned product. How does, retired, get to seventy with most of his poisoned marbles from the wrong side of the track, and still be able to swallow that he's been poisoned by farmers

I can picture, retired, out with his one liter roundup spray bottle, after dark, soaking his 60 dandelion plants on his suburban 50 foot square lawn until his bottle is empty.

Oh!, the humanity of that concentrated concentrate, and all without a caption of poison.

[checking]

I'm blinded by all that poison. Perhaps that isn't a cereal.

[malleefarmer]

Preharvest roundup is approved here but reality used by very very few/

We use heaps of roundup preplant and summer weed control etc etc but I honestly cannot disagree with any of Albertafarmer5 commnets I to think it may be banned unfortunately or over regulated and as he said customer is never wrong.

I'm not suggesting for a moment I'm in favour of banning it but his comments I think one day will be spot on who knows 10 years 5 scary real scary

[RD414]

Problem is, the way I see it, every group out there that is against farming has realized its easier to lobby and force us to comply rather than do it the old fashioned way and pay for something you want. We are expected to grow wheat for 70`s prices and we have evolved and met the demand. Round up dessication is one of the tools we sometimes use. Don't want it sprayed, call Hobbyfarmer, he`ll gladly sell it to you. Show enough demand and more will join him in organic farming. The bastards at ducks unlimited used to pay a pittance to secure marshland, they now lobby government and the general public in hopes of outlawing draining the swamp. Talked to LW the other day and he basically said you farmers are getting better at marketing grain, now you better start marketing yourselves. My view is, don't want to pay to have a lobby group work on our behalf, well get off your ass and sell your industry. And no, I'm not promoting the nfu. We give millions in check-offs, you guys can start promoting our industry. Don't know how, hire a 20 something from turdos or charley clarks election campaign.