This could actually screw up farms and our food supply. The fields are so contaminated it takes YEARS for them to recover and grow anything that isn't GMOed to withstand glyphosate. You can't just stop using it and carry on. Think about it, what grows in farm fields...NOTHING! They've killed off the entire biome to grow a single crop. That all needs to recover.
Invading armies used to salt the land to kill off the peasants. Now they have us spraying our fields for them.
My personal observation is the residue isn’t active very long. After harvesting most fields around my area are quickly taken over by weeds or volunteer crops from dropped seeds.
This past year the farmers here had a lot of soybeans that didn’t get picked up by their combine. Once we got a couple rains the fields were blanketed with volunteer soybean plants, which to my understanding don’t possess the glyphosate resistance trait their parent plant had.
Here in the spring farm fields are blanketed with weeds. Some fields are solid yellow when the wild mustard blooms. Some fields are light purple when the dead nettles bloom.
The bigger issue will be weed control. Prior to widespread herbicide use farmers had implements to mechanically control weeds until crops were big enough to outcompete them. I’m not sure what it would take to get back to that old practice.
This could actually screw up farms and our food supply. The fields are so contaminated it takes YEARS for them to recover and grow anything that isn't GMOed to withstand glyphosate. You can't just stop using it and carry on. Think about it, what grows in farm fields...NOTHING! They've killed off the entire biome to grow a single crop. That all needs to recover.
Invading armies used to salt the land to kill off the peasants. Now they have us spraying our fields for them.
My personal observation is the residue isn’t active very long. After harvesting most fields around my area are quickly taken over by weeds or volunteer crops from dropped seeds.
This past year the farmers here had a lot of soybeans that didn’t get picked up by their combine. Once we got a couple rains the fields were blanketed with volunteer soybean plants, which to my understanding don’t possess the glyphosate resistance trait their parent plant had.
Here in the spring farm fields are blanketed with weeds. Some fields are solid yellow when the wild mustard blooms. Some fields are light purple when the dead nettles bloom.
The bigger issue will be weed control. Prior to widespread herbicide use farmers had implements to mechanically control weeds until crops were big enough to outcompete them. I’m not sure what it would take to get back to that old practice.
we should raise sheep on those weed fields. and eat more meat while returning fertility to these old pesticide-degrated fields.
And a good sized flock of laying hens!