““Farmers there often had trouble getting wheat and barley to dry evenly so they can start harvesting. So they came up with the idea to kill the crop (with glyphosate) one to two weeks before harvest to accelerate the drying down of the grain,” he said.
The pre-harvest use of glyphosate allows farmers to harvest crops as much as two weeks earlier than they normally would, an advantage in northern, colder regions.”
I’m in farm country in MI and I’ve never seen, or heard of anyone spraying wheat before harvest. I still say it’s BS.
I appreciate your opinion. Others have seen it.
Regardless, wheat is sprayed at other times.
From the Monsanto website - instructions for how to do this!
I had to access the internet wayback machine to find this document because Monsanto has pulled it from their website now.
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It is a common practice