Glyphosate market drying up

[tubs]

I have to Graeme Sait meetings a couple of years ago was very critical about all chemicals but at the same time said make your spray water very acid and it will work better. I think we should use as least as possible it makes uptake of certain micros very difficult. Our nutrient density in food product have dropped alot, That is one reason why people are getting fat they have to eat a lot to get the nutrition.Farmers get paid on yield and not for nutrient rich food

[fjlip]

my dad who just passed at 95 sprayed with an open Deere model M and used leather gloves no mask etc. and the chemical back then wasn't As mild as round up today. He lived a full life.

Funny no real farmers say things like your posting.

We have similar to share, Dad made 100, yes, sprayed in open tractor, over 20 years till I started in 1978. No mask, no gloves, Blew plugged nozzles with his lips on it! Cab with filter about 1985 for me. We wear all the stuff, sans mask. Never spray insecticides though. roundup is fine....unless you DRINK it. Zero odor, low drift, concentrated, low G/Acres, love it.

[Guest]

Safe and effective. Where have we heard that recently?
Of course!
From the companies that take your money.

[SASKFARMER]

Go away you bring nothing, oh wait I was wrong you bring bullshit to this site.

Round up is safe liberal woke sheep are the real killer.

[blackpowder]

I started my career spraying with an open tractor. I predate gloves and masks. (We were small farmers)

Here's what I do know. (I am still small).
I now use a sprayer on 6 x the acres with up to 4 passes per acre.
We never insecticide.
I've never been affected by chems nor do I have any allergies.
Some chems make some people sick. I get it.
Some groups have a smell and 'taste' that are obvious.
Gly definitely not one of these.
I do however, acknowledge that in some crops it is used a fair amount.

I've met Don Huber. A brilliant mind under that conspiracy hat.

Warmer and wetter season ag regions use one heck of a lot more chemical treatments from field to fork than we ever, ever will!
How many times are stored grains fumigated on average in many countries?? I'll wait....
How many grams per hectare active are applied to some crops?
How many times is fruit sprayed before picking in some countries??
I'll wait.....

I concede that pre harvest gly doesn't "show" well.
Not sure how I'd compete without it.
As all costs follow yields upward.
We have resistant WOats issues here as well as the need for aggressive dessication.

Focusing on one product on the lower end of the toxicity scale is a disservice to everyone.
We are using flawed biases yet again and again.

Once more we are burying the whipping post without comprehensive thought to ramifications. Or whole picture study. Sound familiar??
Figure out how to feed the pop.
Figure out who else is doing so and how. Figure out replacement tech while maintaining GDP.

Ag policies in the ever shrinking First World are brought to you by the same people who designed the carbon strategy. Anything at all smell familiar??
Get off your horse and design tech Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America will readily adopt.

In the meantime, consider how narrow minded your singular crusade really is. How contrary to the big picture.
Don't be a Chuck.
Be an advocate for your industry not a Benedict Arnold. Do better, find better.

[Guest]

Good post except for the last paragraph, unlike sf. Only reason he's up in arms is because tighter regulations and eventual disappearance of gly threatens conventional farming methods.
We can and we must do better.

[Guest]

Rats jumping ship
Levels not seen in 17 years
Been working on this behind the scene for 6 years

[biglentil]

Ban glypho and hundreds of millions will likely not afford to eat. The ones telling you how toxic rup is are the same ones that want to ban herbal remedies and over the counter vitamins "for your safety". Put two and two together Austranada.

[Guest]

You're the only one I know of that has come to that conclusion. Substantiate your claim.
Outright ban may not be needed. The market will dry up on its own. Time to call it a day, straw getting chewy.

[biglentil]

Just put "Glyphosate" in the google search bar. These are the four top videos that popped up. Reminds me of the war on the cheap and safer than tylenol ivermectin. Heck they even went after aspirin when it showed promise in reducing the symptoms of covid by 50%. Actually safe, generic and effective big pharma/big chem can't have that can they.

Pay attention to the agenda we are being fed a steady diet of propaganda. The process is called "demoralization".