Posted on 03/28/2026 11:24:50 AM PDT by metmom
"Activist and trial lawyer attacks on herbicides imperil US and global health and nutrition"
President Trump recently signed an Executive Order invoking the Defense Production Act to ensure increased domestic supplies of elemental phosphorus – a critical component of glyphosate-based herbicides that are vital for America’s non-organic crop productivity and thus national security.
The EO has rekindled anti-pesticide activism and public concern about glyphosate, which used to be the primary ingredient in Roundup for home use but was changed following numerous class-action lawsuits. It’s also created internal conflicts within the “Make America Healthy Again” movement because the President and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are asking MAHA to defend a chemical that it had previously battled as carcinogenic.
Glyphosate herbicides are extensively used with corn, soybean and cotton crops – and less so with sugar beets, alfalfa, wheat, oats, barley, canola, and some fruits and vegetables, utilizing “Roundup Ready” crop variants that are immune to the highly efficient herbicide. Up to 90 percent of soybean and corn acreage is treated to manage weeds and increase crop yields remarkably in recent decades.
Right now, there is only one domestic phosphorus producer, and herbicide manufacturers rely heavily on imports. That has become a major national security concern due to the dominance some countries have exerted over many metals, minerals and products. Often, contentious global politics can lead to threatened or actual import restrictions or bans.
Glyphosate has become controversial mostly because of longstanding activist opposition, advertisements seeking “cancer victims” who “may have been exposed” to the chemical, and class-action lawsuits that employ highly questionable (verging on fraudulent) “science” to impugn the chemical and persuade sympathetic but scientifically uninformed juries to deliver billion-dollar “jackpot justice” verdicts.
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Florida is the number one producer of phosphate rock. Phosphate is also a component of chicken manure. No phosphate, means no glophosate. Simple chemistry. Countries has fought over access to guano phosphate/nitrogen islands.
Well this post makes much more sense than the first. Thank you for the explanation.
Wow. My nose is painfully tender, but I've never sensed an iota of odor to any Glyphosate. You must have encountered a mix including other additives.
I can smell that nasty 2,4-D an acre away, for example,
It was roundup. Someone sprayed it on a tree. It stunk the whole neighborhood up for 3 days.
I'll look into it but... Woodlands? He should try grasslands. That's MUCH harder.
The Wildergarten project started with a 200 year weed history, beginning soon after the Spanish conquest in 1791. The property adjoins what was once the "El Camino Real" and remained a principal transportation corridor across these Mountains for 100 years. It was terraced for an apple orchard, and abandoned for 50 years with a forest and brush invasion imported via the dirt road above. It was so overgrown I had to crawl. After the first decade just thinning trees and exotic brush while working beyond full time as a project engineer, I've been at species restoration full time for 25 years and maintain a 2500pp picture book about the project. We went from 2/3 of a 14 acre property infested with exotic brush, Acacia, and Eucalyptus with only 60 species of plants left reproducing, to now 400 species in five habitat types. I use various blends of five different herbicides, most applied in spots as small as a centimeter. I am the only small property owner with a Prescribed Fire Plan on file in this region.
The property was independently verified as the "best grassland restoration in North America" 15 years ago (the reference is at the bottom of the page).
Diana has been talking about Beau doing something like that.
I think she’s be very interested in that.
Is this something the gardening ping list might be interested in?
good Roundup?
Yes
It was removed because of the enormous amount of litigation Bayer faced, not because of any other reason.
There are other manufactures of glyphosate. But teh substitute chemicals are generally ineffective compared to glyphosate or are actually dangerous, like Diquat.
other mixtures include: Riclopyr, Fluazifop, Imazapic, Quinclorac, Dicamba, Sulfentrazone, Topramezone
Tractor Supply sells RM-43, which is a 43% glyphosate concentrate with a preemergent added-meaning no new weeds for 6 months to 1 year. And it is expensive-$150 per 2.5 gallon jug. But it works better than the new Roundup formula or Ortho.
“It was roundup. Someone sprayed it on a tree. It stunk the whole neighborhood up for 3 days.”
No way.
“Anything that stinks as bad as roundup has got to have toxic crap in it. You can smell that acrid garbage a mile away.”
Don’t make up nonsense and then post it.
43% glyphosate concentrate with a preemergent is the standard commercial mix. Usually you have to have a “farm” account - at least with Fleet Farm, which is like Tractor Supply.
I know at least in Arizona, Tractor Supply or CAL Ranch will sell farm-grade weed killers to anybody.
Then they are federally liable
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