Posted on 05/08/2025 5:58:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The fact is. These freaks have never been on a farm.
Herbicides, fertilizers and pesticides determine the bounty.
Take any of those three away and production will drop.
For years they’ve demanded no till practices. Now that the farmers have switched, if they dont use any of those three...no crop.
Years ago, I printed the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists, taped them onto my refrigerator. Have been following that list. Organic is really not much more $$$.
The tomatoes in the supermarket are bred to maintain form traveling long distances, and to look good, not to taste good or be nutritious. Then they are picked before they are ripe, travel long distances, and are gassed to make them red. To me, they taste terrible.
Ag pesticide, in particularly insecticides, use affects the entire environment. It’s literally wiping out the pollinators, from honey bees to many species of butterflies and many other beneficial insects; parasitic wasps, carnivorous species that feed on pest insects etc. For instance, imadiclorpid, an insecticide that translocates through out the plant and is used extensively in American agriculture and for termite control of residential and commercial buildings. In agriculture, it also concentrates in the flowers and that’s where it affects the pollinators. If there is no direct application contact on the pollinating species, the pollinators come in contact with it when they collect pollen from the flowers and it kills them too. This particular insecticide is active in the plant for up to 15 days. Europe and many other countries have banned its use, they recognized the ruin it was having on non target species. It needs to be banned here in the USA but the big AG Chem industry owns those who could and should ban its use.
I used some killer stuff on carpenter bees today. Dropped ‘em like they’d been pole axed.
Drill holes in my barn? I don’t think so. Every year, they never learn. Stupid bees.
I tried talking to them. Tried plugging the holes.
They only buzzed and kept drilling. I run Bartertown.
I buy organic tomatoes. Hope. they don’t get gassed. Will have to find out. Do you know what kind of gas they use?
Bring back DDT. After running behind mosquito spray trucks in the 1950s I am still doing well at 78 years of age.
I tried growing pesticide free foods. fifty years ago. I had all the Rodale Books on gardening.
I planted corn and had one of the best crops grow I ever had seen in my life! Then the WORMS hit it!
I carefully read the Rodale books and found mineral oil squirted on the ear of corn would stop them. It did not.
I tried a second crop, same problem. BUGS AND WORMS.
I went back and read the Rodale books carefully and found each “how to grow” section was carefully worded so that no where was it said these methods ACTUALLY WORKED, just that OTHER people CLAIMED THEY WORKED.
They did not. I then trashed the Rodale Books and have had decent gardens since.
Exactly.🤔
Is Dolores Huerta any relation to SEIU California’s David Huerta, riot supporter?
No, they mostly lost them to varroa mite infestations.
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