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[Jackie Jameson <jacqueline.jameson@gmail.com>]

If it's not off-topic, I also would be interested to read data and proper studies about its ability to survive the GI tract and its persistence in manure and behavior in the compost pile.  I did have an unfortunate purchase of composted goat manure a few years ago that damaged crops, stunting growth completely of susceptible crops and others.  This was resulting from the now known problem of the persistance of clopyralid - the goats ate hay that was treated with the herbicide, which passes through their tracts and persists in the composted manure,

http://www.puyallup.wsu.edu/soilmgmt/Clopyralid.htm

http://ohioline.osu.edu/aex-fact/0714.html

The second publication does have data on the reported half-life of glyphosate, but no data on composting half life.

Thanks,
Jackie

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Kieran &/or Donna <holycow@frontiernet.net> wrote:

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/664

 

 

This is the first time I have heard about this, and there seems to be good information in it.  I haven't checked up on it, but I do know one thing, and that is that we have gotten loads of manure that did not in any way improve plant growth.  I can think of 3 times we brought in manure and where the main pile went we could hardly get anything to grow for 2 years afterward.  This has concerned me so much that we got a couple of goats so I could control their feed, on the assumption that it was that Milestone herbicide.  This article implies that much more may be involved.  I figure that if I track down one or two of the local farmers who are not growing Roundup Ready corn, I could feed it to free range poultry and do okay.  Either that or with a bit more attention to a balanced ration I could house them like Louis Bromfield talks about in his "Chicken Litter Story".  

    Any comments on this article would be of great interest to me, and perhaps to some of you who don't always get the production out of your trees or garden that you would like.     Donna

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