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  • From: "BarbaraJ" <jbmckillip AT mesanetworks.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Glyphosate
  • Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 15:28:20 -0600

Glyphosate scares me.  It is dangerous stuff to the soil life, animals, birds, bees, people etc.  It breeds superweeds.  I know that weeds are the scourge of existence for growers, but I won't use it.  Can't be certified organic and use the stuff either.  This is the kind of topic that makes us all crazy.  Almost like politics or religion :)   I say let the consumer decide and more and more often they want organic (or naturally grown) food.   I won't feed it to my kids and I don't want my free range chickens or ducks getting into it either.  And all that being said, my husband has a spray license, and he is worried about long term effects of spraying chemicals for his work, so much so that he won't allow our son to work with him or spray the chemicals.  We're older but these kids haven't had their chance yet.  Where I grew up there was both a very high incident of cancer AND agricultural chemicals.  Related?  probably.  but that is my opinion, I'm sure there is a study on it but I'm transplanting cabbages today and don't want to research it online.
Barb
Colorado 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Glyphosate

We all have our priorities. Top of my list is the environment that future children deserve to inherit. http://www.naturalgrocers.com/nutrition/dangers-glyphosate-tolerance-and-gm-crops
I'm okay with hard work barely making enough. Using poison to grow food not so much.




On Apr 3, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Mike Brabo <mdbrabo AT att.net> wrote:
We've had success with a propane flamer on nutsedge and this year's onslaught of hensbit.

http://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Books/Steel-in-the-Field/Text-Version/Horticultural-Crop-Tools/Flamer-backpack-wheeled-manifold-type

Regards,
Mike
Vesterbrook Farm - Certified Naturally Grown
Clarksville, Missouri - Mississippi River Bluffs, Zone 6






On Apr 3, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Willie McKemie wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 06:49:03PM -0500, Lloyd Blackwell wrote:
>> Yes we still use glyphosate . Did you ever see nutsedge go through black plastic?
>
> I haven't had much luck with glyphosate on nutsedge.  It seem to relish
> going through plastic.  I've seen it go through tomato fruit!
>
> I believe Bob mentioned Sandea for nutsedge several years ago.  It
> works WONDERS!
>
> My most troublesome weed now is morning glory/ bindweed.
>
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