[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Nervous Tick]

Thanks for the reminder — I need to buy another ten gallons or so of the concentrate. I use it sparingly, but when you need glyphosate, you need glyphosate. A couple gallons will last the rest of my life, the rest will be good for barter.

[Does so]

Bayer didn’t understand American lawfare.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is sometimes used as a desiccant in wheat, meaning it's sprayed on wheat plants before harvest to speed up drying and even out ripening. This practice, known as desiccation, can help farmers harvest crops earlier and in more favorable conditions, especially in regions with short growing seasons or wet conditions. Glyphosate is typically applied one to two weeks before harvest, when the wheat grain moisture content is below 30%. Glyphosate kills the plant tissue, effectively stopping the plant from drawing moisture from the grain. The USA applies glyphosate to wheat primarily for weed control in no-till systems (30% of acres) with pre-harvest desiccation being rare (2% of acres). Canada relies heavily on glyphosate for pre-harvest desiccation (90–95% of acres), driven by short, wet growing seasons. This leads to higher residue levels in Canadian wheat products, though milling reduces exposure in both countries. Both Canada and USA deem residues safe, but Canada faces greater public and environmental scrutiny. Economic and climatic factors drive these differences, with Canada’s practices more entrenched due to agricultural necessity. It will be interesting to see if Kennedy wades into this area of public health.

[BobL]

“Bayer has been dogged by lawsuits linked to Roundup since it acquired the US manufacturer Monsanto in a blockbuster deal in 2018.”

Is Bayer as STUPID as they appear, buying into this liability? I guess so. Might as well buy the melted-down reactors at Fukushima while they’re at it.

[P8riot]

The problem isn’t just Roundup, the majority of weedkillers use glyphosate as the active ingredient. They will never pull it off the market, it will be like cigarettes. They will put additional warnings on it and regulate its sale and use and the price will increase for everything it touches.

[small farm girl]

IIRC, the study they have been using includes not only glyphosphate, but 24D, Dacthal and 245T, all common lawn care products. Not defending any of them, just saying that’s not the scientific method.

[Smittie]

It would be best for the environment to take all such poisons off the market. They’re largely responsible for the bee die-off we are experiencing. We need bees more than weed free lawns.

[dynoman]

We have a bottle of roundup here that has zero glyphosate in it.

[logi_cal869]

There is plenty of research backing the need for unbiased study. Additionally, my cousin has bone marrow cancer with no history in the family...and lives smack in the middle of an ag area which uses the poison.

F ‘em, and the regulators who looked the other way for decades should eat lead.

[Carry_Okie]

Glyphosate is the DDT of herbicides. It has been absolutely critical to our native plant restoration project. The amounts I use are small but for the quantity used directly on redwood stems as a stump treatment, without which that forest will never recover its forest floor biodiversity and would instead become a fire hazard of rampant root crown sprouts.

This corrupt move is in favor of the newly patented glufosinate ammonium. Bayer bought Monsanto and already had also patented "glufosinate ammonium ready seed" available.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Bayer -- the company today is massive, multinational and wants to limit liability. Germany and other European nations are pulling back use of glyphosate which means the US market is very necessary to their bottom line.

Stefan Oelrich (Bayer): mRNA vaccines are Gene Therapy Bayer exec on gene therapy, a 41 second clip from his speech to World Health Summit.

Nice to say "when you need glyphosate, you need glyphosate" but how many today would say "when you need mRNA jabs, you need mRNA jabs?"

It's about marketing. It's always about marketing.

--- ""We're nearing a point where the litigation industry could force us to even stop selling this vital product...."

Indeed. And just as the chemical business competes for your dollars, so does the litigation industry, the news media, the weapons manufacturers, the social media folks, and so on.

We're their profit centers. We're their data. And we are their objects of marketing.

[9YearLurker]

Oh, please, yes!

Needless killer made even worse with “Roundup ready” seeds.

[Socon-Econ]

The result of a legal system where easily manipulated, public school educated jurors are entrusted with deciding what causes cancer.