Atrazine has been around the farm for 80 years. Its use is now restricted to very low applied concentrations, specific applied areas and is only used as mainly a partner or enhancer of modern chemicals. The old farmers would talk about atrazine salesmen drinking it in a cup of water to show how safe it was. My creeks and ponds are still a nice blend of male and female frogs and toads. My 6 yr old and I catch them often and look forward to next weeks county fair and the frog jumping contest! The slow lazy frogs come from the ponds. If I can catch a grass frog for the contest it is a sure winner.
I watched a documentary on Ben Franklin. His dad was instrumental in his 6 -13 age at teaching and nurturing different skills and trades ultimately working for his oldest brother. He was the youngest of 20 siblings. In a world that is on fire raise fire fighters
I am a farmer and there is talk from the end users that buy corn, the corn produced in 2024 will have an esg number attached to it and thus be worth more or less {a premium}, paid to the farmer producer. The premium paid to the farmer would only be 20 to 30 percent of the total, of which the remaining would go to the end users.
This summer in the mid-west at a family gathering we saw the exact same thing. It stayed in the same place for hours until dark. We took pictures and video. It was in the countryside far removed from any population. There was alcohol and fireworks involved but even the sober friends were staring and wondering. I was actually a little worried. The wind was blowing and it never did.
The seed companies have been using crispr tech on our hybrid seed corn. They can select the desirable traits without the undesirable traits infiltrating the hybrid cross. They cost a ton of money to buy for me as a farmer.
As a hog farmer in Iowa I can attest first hand to how mean pregnant sows are to each other when put together. We pen them in personal crates while gestating and the barn is full of quiet healthy animals. This equates to less lame mothers and bigger litters at birth. phuq coliforna
My good friend is the top mortition in my local town. I live out in the country and he promised to stop out and cruise around the farm with me. He is always on call so cannot drink but I want to ask him if he has seen strange things on the table the last year. But I want to wait for the right time.
As a user of glyphosate for the last 40 year my use has dropped to almost nothing in my corn and bean crops. Resistant weeds have flourished and now absorb my focus from other chemistries of herbicides. Plus the cost for glyphosate has went up 4X because of the shortage of phosphoric acid.
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