Satguy
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Things really started to change in 1993. I noticed the seasons shifted by at least a month. That was the summer of all those floods in the Midwest.
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Glyphosate????
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Things really started to change in 1993. I noticed the seasons shifted by at least a month. That was the summer of all those floods in the Midwest.
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lakngolf
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And Clinton became president!
I would take my farm totally organic if I could figure out how. I grow a huge organic garden that contributes a significant portion of our food. We mostly eat venison from the farm as well as other wild critters and fish I bring in. Wife and I have studied health and fitness most of our lives and I was doing 1/2 ironman distance triathlon until 60. Seriously considering training up for another one this fall. Point being quality of our food supply is extremely important to us.
All that said I still use gly on my fields between crop rotations. Here in the deep south I haven't yet learned a way to avoid it as grasses and weeds would take over. I am totally no till. I've long since stopped using synthetic fertilizer. We made the conscious decision years ago to eliminate all GMO's from the farm as well as our diet. Candidly I don't want my critters eating GMO's nor do we. While I do use gly some effort is made to reduce or eliminate the poisons exposure to anything deer eat. An example of this is happening right now. I just drilled my summer crops directly into the winter cover crops which had died. There were some very young grasses and a weeds at ground level. The same day we drilled we sprayed which eliminates competition until new crops shade out weeds. Since I'm not a farmer a few weeds don't bother me.
Its not interesting to me to debate the merits of using poisons or GMO's. Abundant research can be found supporting both positions. I go with my intuition and what fits the lifestyle I choose.
All that said I still use gly on my fields between crop rotations. Here in the deep south I haven't yet learned a way to avoid it as grasses and weeds would take over. I am totally no till. I've long since stopped using synthetic fertilizer. We made the conscious decision years ago to eliminate all GMO's from the farm as well as our diet. Candidly I don't want my critters eating GMO's nor do we. While I do use gly some effort is made to reduce or eliminate the poisons exposure to anything deer eat. An example of this is happening right now. I just drilled my summer crops directly into the winter cover crops which had died. There were some very young grasses and a weeds at ground level. The same day we drilled we sprayed which eliminates competition until new crops shade out weeds. Since I'm not a farmer a few weeds don't bother me.
Its not interesting to me to debate the merits of using poisons or GMO's. Abundant research can be found supporting both positions. I go with my intuition and what fits the lifestyle I choose.