Glyphosate free roundup

Grassman

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Location
Derbyshire
Saw this in costco.
Didnt know roundup could be had in different active ingredients.
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Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
It's a great chemical topper, as the blurbs say it doesn't go into the root at all, even less if you chelate it with humates

I sprayed some acetic acid to try a 'succession cropping' experiment here, 5 weeks post application and the grass is coming back, and the clover never really left the building, perfect for what I wanted it to do. I put a tiny bit of salt in too just to annoy any slugs and help delay regeneration

Yes, could have used the same rate (c.250ml/ha of G360) but don't really like the idea of creating a resistance issue for no real reason.

My biggest question is why the hell would you put the word "roundup" anywhere near it, abit like labeling e-cigarettes as "smoke-free lung disease"
 

Cowabunga

Member
Location
Ceredigion,Wales
I wonder how they get away with this? I wonder whether Bayer forgot to trademark the brand name or something during the acquisition of Monsanto?
Or is it just a photoshop image?

Whatever:wideyed:, it sounds very dodgy even if the contents are relatively benign.
 

DeeGee

Member
Location
North East Wales
Anyway, what’s in it doesn’t matter, if it’s free I will have some please, and sell it to my neighbours; people like Baldrick and Selectamatic.
They will buy anything off me if I tell them it’s half price.

Baldrick handed over five grand for a Friesian bullock that I told him had sired several dams that gave 8,000 litres in their first lactation. And Selectamatic eagerly pulled out twenty big ones for a totally genuine and immaculate David Brown 880 Fordson Dexta that had been brush painted white with household emulsion. He even swallowed my sales pitch that the fact that the tyres were partly white made it even more valuable.
 

Grassman

Member
Location
Derbyshire
It's a great chemical topper, as the blurbs say it doesn't go into the root at all, even less if you chelate it with humates

I sprayed some acetic acid to try a 'succession cropping' experiment here, 5 weeks post application and the grass is coming back, and the clover never really left the building, perfect for what I wanted it to do. I put a tiny bit of salt in too just to annoy any slugs and help delay regeneration

Yes, could have used the same rate (c.250ml/ha of G360) but don't really like the idea of creating a resistance issue for no real reason.

My biggest question is why the hell would you put the word "roundup" anywhere near it, abit like labeling e-cigarettes as "smoke-free lung disease"
Seems you can't trust a brand name to do what you expect nowadays . I expect "roundup" to kill through to the roots but not now.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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