Posted on 12/27/2016 11:33:40 PM PST by Ray76
In China you can buy kudzu as a vegetable. People can eat it too. That said, Kudzu is the plant that ate Alabama
Spray that $hit with Round-up! All the row crops are Round-up ready! Monsanto (Bayer) Thanks You !!
Row, industrialized monocrops are devistating to bees and a few wildflowers planted on scenic by-ways are not going to make up for it.
Are you aware that todays seed used to raise corn cannot reproduce?
Is’s been that way for nearly 75 years.
And yet farmers still grow corn from seed they must purchase every year.
This is how these pricks play the game
Corn seeds gotta come from some place.
(ducking and running!)
Remember what Reagan said about the government helping.
I’m not saying this seed was used around my area, West of Minneapolis, but I noticed a lot of Roundup ready fields full of ragweed.
multiflora rose also was a govt project
Palmer amaranth
That grows around here everywhere! I had a nice garden then got some cow manure fewrtilizer from a dairy. I had the best crop of this stuff had ever seen! Cattle like it and it passes through the digestive tract and out ready to grow!
After a while you will recognize it when it sprouts and can pull it before it produces seeds. One problem, It also produces spike thorns on the stem so use leather gloves.
If seed heads are produced, I cut the base and without shaking the bush place it in a plastic garbage can for disposal.
I have not had any fresh manure fertilizer spread for years and still this stuff sprouts.
I thought I had it whipped last year, then outside the garden I noticed several bushes had grown and already gone to seed. Bummer.
Added deliberately, because it’s not fair that we can feed ourselves when so many others can’t.
How about biofuel?
Isn't that why you compost it?
Can't control the plant. It swallows fences, power poles and power lines, devours forests and seasonal equipment parked in reach. I suppose it can be poisoned and over grazing by goats and pigs will kill it but damnation, it is destructive. Biofuel, a fraud that costs more to make than it produces in energy, is destructive of engines and does not burn for beans in very cold weather.
Some varieties are resistant to herbicides - http://www.hpj.com/crops/herbicide-resistant-palmer-amaranth-confirmed-in-missouri/article_4e4d9c5b-729e-57fc-884c-b027316824cb.html
There are still corns that reproduce, I used them every year for at least 10 years.
I don’t doubt you at all, and I overstated things when I said today’s corn can’t reproduce.
I should have said ‘can’t economically reproduce’.
Since about the 50s farmers have been buying seed which is a result of special cross breeding programs, and the very best ones, until GMO came along, were the single cross hybrids.
The single cross hybrids were ‘terminal’ hybrids, they don’t produce a seed that is any good for high yield corn.
As a result, farmers began buying those single cross seeds every year.
The farmers who didn’t, soon became known as ‘former farmers’, because they couldn’t compete financially with those who bought seed every year. not buying seed meant the yields were relatively very low.
The same is true today with GMO.
Either buy GMO seed, or grow non-GMO corn for a specialty market, or for fun.
You are correct, the mass quantities are GMO, and completely inedible.
I cannot convince most of my friends that corn used to taste different. The corn on the cob of today, tastes like the canned sweetened corn we used to have as children. It has been years since I have eaten corn, as I grow my hobby patch for my chickens......YUMMMM free range chickens...
I doubt it would taste much good though, it is more of a throwback to native stock, not the hybrid strains of the late 20th Century before MonSatan. I would rather get my sweets from a bottle of beer, or wine.
I was talking about field corn, not sweet corn.
The kind people, with rare exceptions, don’t eat.
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