Glyphosate

[Adeptandy]

December 2022 is fast approaching, anyone heard anything about its licencing for the future ?

 

[Robt]

It would help if less people sprayed it Willy nilly while posting on social media about “liquid sunshine” . Honestly it makes me cringe as most do it to save a week! Very very bad image

 

[Adeptandy]

It would help if less people sprayed it Willy nilly while posting on social media about “liquid sunshine” . Honestly it makes me cringe as most do it to save a week! Very very bad image

Couldn’t agree more

 

[bobk]

It would help if less people sprayed it Willy nilly while posting on social media about “liquid sunshine” . Honestly it makes me cringe as most do it to save a week! Very very bad image

Have you evidence of this anecdotal willy nillying ?

 

[snarling bee]

I wholeheartedly agree with that as well.

I find by the time the grain is fit to spray (ie 30% moisture) it will be below 15% within a week anyway. The harvest interval is 7 days. Green grains or not.
Claas are partly to blame as they advocated its wholesale use to get the most acres out of their combines. Blxxdy disgraceful in my eyes.

Have you evidence of this anecdotal willy nillying ?

I have but I will not share it on a public forum.

 

[Spencer]

I think it’s fine for farmers to use chemicals legally personally, and don’t berate them for doing so.

 

[snarling bee]

But it is a requirement that there is a 'need' for the application.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Its either safe or not, using less dont make it safer

 

[principal skinner]

I think it’s fine for farmers to use chemicals legally personally, and don’t berate them for doing so.

Even when applied just to speed up harvest whilst the residues can be found in the end product?

 

[Nithsdale]

I think it’s fine for farmers to use chemicals legally personally, and don’t berate them for doing so.

But they have a duty to use it responsibly.

Whilst it may be legal currently, wreckless over use or misuse will only see tighter regulations for all in the end

Its either safe or not, using less dont make it safer

Using less actually does make it safer. It lowers the levels of exposure

 

[Spencer]

Even when applied just to speed up harvest whilst the residues can be found in the end product?

Think you can find residues in everything now.. it’s the testing that’s improved not the concentration..

 

[Spencer]

But they have a duty to use it responsibly.

Whilst it may be legal currently, wreckless over use or misuse will only see tighter regulations for all in the end




Using less actually does make it safer. It lowers the levels of exposure

And have you evidence that they have used it irresponsibly?

 

[Fiveospades]

A huge amount of research and scientific findings have concluded that Glyphosate is not carcinogenic. These findings have been presented to the powers that be but the green vote is larger and more fashionable than the farming vote and as a result governments are taking notice of the lobbying from the green vote. It would never surprise me if a ban on pre harvest glyphosate on cereals, particularly milling wheat will be the outcome.
Where will it leave oilseed rape growers as Reglone is no longer an option?. Yet another nail in the coffin of UK rapeseed production leaving the door wide open to foreign imports with no traceability or equal production standards.
The prosecutions against the manufacturers of Glphosate in America puzzle me. Were the people that became ill wearing the the correct ppe whenever they were mixing or applying the chemical? Were they fully trained and qualified to use chemicals? If they were not then surely the cases shoulld not have been brought. Is PPE only ever going to give you some protection but never 100% protection?.
We should all be mindful that resistance to glyphosate is showing up here and there and perhaps should consider our options before overuse causes us more problems .
Glyphosate is a very important tool in our armoury and helps to keep our costs just about bearable.

 

[Nithsdale]

And have you evidence that they have used it irresponsibly?

That's not how regulation works.


You have to prove you've used it responsibly

 

[Dave6170]

Do you southerners need it alot for harvesting?

 

[Spencer]

That's not how regulation works.


You have to prove you've used it responsibly

I’m quite aware, being regulated and approved to use it!

 

[Wilberforce]

It would help if less people sprayed it Willy nilly while posting on social media about “liquid sunshine” . Honestly it makes me cringe as most do it to save a week! Very very bad image

Easy to peach from sunny Suffolk! Invaluable tool in the West and north. Saves a fortune in drying costs, massively lowers our carbon footprint. Straw fresher and fitted too less problems with stock health than mussty stuff mid winter. I take it those who object to it pre harvest don't use multiple doses pre drilling to try and control blackgrass? All arguments for and against have been stated numerous times before.

 

[nick...]

Gonna make things more difficult fir the dad boys.what will get used then if/when it’s banned
Nick...

 

[Derrick Hughes]

But they have a duty to use it responsibly.

Whilst it may be legal currently, wreckless over use or misuse will only see tighter regulations for all in the end




Using less actually does make it safer. It lowers the levels of exposure

Its either safe or its not, it cant be half safe

 

[principal skinner]

Easy to peach from sunny Suffolk! Invaluable tool in the West and north. Saves a fortune in drying costs, massively lowers our carbon footprint. Straw fresher and fitted too less problems with stock health than mussty stuff mid winter. I take it those who object to it pre harvest don't use multiple doses pre drilling to try and control blackgrass? All arguments for and against have been stated numerous times before.

Pre drilling is very very different to pre harvest