Posted on 03/27/2022 3:25:36 PM PDT by hardspunned
Glyphosate was already in short supply heading into the 2022 planting season, but another black swan event is putting an even tighter squeeze on supplies. On Friday, Bayer sent a note to retailers saying due to production issues with a third-party ingredient supplier, the company won’t be able to fulfill some of its previously booked orders. Bayer declared a force majeure, which means due to the issue being out of Bayer’s control, the company will be able to escape contractual obligations.
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I checked with our ag rep at church, and he said you can’t cut the application rate and still get a reasonable result.
I checked with our ag rep at church, and he said you can’t cut the application rate and still get a reasonable result.
Perceived risky so no one skips fertilizer.
During the Ag crises in the 80’s I had two farmers put on no fertilizers. One didn’t put fert on because int rates were high. two years of no fert. decent yields but extremely profitable and took him out of debt. It was a farm he had farmed for a long time and knew well.
The other situation was a newly acquired rented farm and history not known and did not work out as well.
Thanks. I’m asking him. He’s a really good guy. Very young and relatively new at the job.
Now that our industrialized food supply is addicted to Round Up ready seed that cannot survive with out it...
Brought to you by Monsanto
I guess we will let the weeds grow!!!
Saw plenty of it at Tractor Supply on Friday.
We had herb and vege gardens....used chicken poop and granite dust as well as black stuff from the compost heap....well aged horse poop is also good...
Every city in America has the basic raw material for milorganite. Whether it’s worth anything or anybody wants to use it are two other questions.
Diesel works.
I like roundup.
No milorganite in Lowes yesterday.
“Ag crisis in the 80’s”
I remember they were having fertilizer shortages then. The word was you could skip fertilizer because there was residual fertilizer in the soil.
But now we are in everything must be fearful mode.
A lot of glyphosate is spread directly on maturing grains to get all the grain to mature at the same time.
That is the source of the “trace” glyphosate in food.
Farmers better get the moldboard plows and row cultivators out of the weeds (if they still have them, most don’t anymore) and gone through before next year. Cuz if you can fight weeds entirely by chemicals, you’ve got to be able to flip the soil to bury weed seeds deep (moldboard plow), and take out weeds between the rows by stirring the topsoil (row cultivator) until the crop can shade out the competition. That’s the way things got done before chemicals.
And crop rotation is a big part of the old system.
**A lot of glyphosate is spread directly on maturing grains to get all the grain to mature at the same time.**
I didn’t know that. I do know that most grain farmers here in the USA are addicted to using fungicide on their crops. Part of the problem is they don’t plow under the stalk trash from the last crop. Great place for mold and fungus to grow.
I’ve seen two yr old corn cobs lying on the ground in fields since this ‘no till’ farming came along. Takes a long time to break those things down when they don’t get buried.
Bkmk
Will it kill dallis (”Dallas”) grass?
Otherwise, that stuff has to be dug out.
It’s pure poison
I am so screwed.
Hmm where are you located?
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