This should make the environmental wackos happy, if the GM seeds are not effective, then farmers won’t use them...whoops, the problem is, if we go back to where we were 20 years ago, I guess the farmers will just use those nasty pesticides that will kill all weeds, but at least we won’t have that evil Roundup around!
Paving the way...
So, I’ve done a GOOD THING by just pulling weeds instead of spending money on RoundUp? WOW (doesn’t mean I don’t have weeds - some of them are perennials!)
So this is the end result of no-till farming...
Oh wait, you are probably not talking about Marijuana.
Nevermind
Ahhh, the Devil is in the details. Could this just be an anti-GM propaganda piece?
Thought you might like to comment on this M.
Evolution in action.
I’ve got some tough weeds that Roundup won’t kill. For them, Goal usually works. For the ones that Goal won’t kill, there’s a couple of other things, but they get pretty expensive. I just picked up some new stuff that’s supposed to kill Marestail and Fleabane. We’ll see how it goes...
Weed chemistry is expensive!
Honestly I just figured that Roundup was starting to water down the mix. It just doesn’t work as well any more. The dang weeds don’t die, all I seem to do is cripple them a little.....
Better living through chemistry.
Go back to the cultivator. Farmers are giving too much money to the chemical companies already anyway.
And then there’s the seed companies...don’t even get me started.
“Oops. Think maybe I’ve seen some of them superweeds in a gravel parking lot nearby. Nothing kills them.”
Try some oil from an old pcb transformer. It kills real good
We started in on the lotus in our 1 1/2 acre pond today, squirting them one leaf at a time. Otherwise, no pond in two or three years.
Gee, I thought this was just my imagination, thought I was applying the Roundup wrong or they had changed the formula. Apparently not! Interesting—and annoying.
Row crops were grown before herbicides came into common usage. I think it was called cultivating between the rows, or plowing up the weeds a time or two. Shouldn’t be too time consuming with the multi-row cultivators used on large tractors.
Roundup is very toxic to humans. In fact, one of its “inert” ingredients is more harmful than the active ingredient, which is glyphosate, and certainly not good for us. But the inert ingredient polyethoxylated tallow amine (POEA) kills human cells. And again the lowly frog shows us what we need to know, as its soft penetrable skin is like a canary’s to our own: Roundup kills frogs more than weeds.