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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7605390" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>round-up is fantastic spray, it has revolutionised farming world wide, r/u resistant crops, are a change maker for a proportion of the worlds underfed nations.</p><p> That said, nobody knows the long term effects, probably because no one cares. It could be that the negatives are outweighed by the positives, l don't know. I have never sprayed grass, pre-cutting, it simply sounds wrong, nor do l like the thought of using it to control weeds, actually in the water. Having said that, 40/50yrs ago, we thought gramoxone pre corn harvest was fantastic, no more chickweed or bineweed, if harvest was late, then the facts of how poisonous it was, a young child near here, died, after drinking some from a coke bottle, out it went, then reglone was the safe one, that went, probably replaced by r/u.</p><p> Organo phosphorous was banned because of it's dangerous properties, replaced by synthetic ones, which don't degrade like the o/p ones do, but l would bet, both were pleasing to sheep !</p><p> This world evolved into a habitable place, nature balanced itself, but that wouldn't keep the increasing population, so farming began, which changed the natural balance, and for many 1,000's of years, man has sought to control nature, by farming, with various degrees of failure or success. Basically we are losing, an increasing world population, and lifestyles, have meant we look to increasingly using short term fixes, that either are rendered ineffective by resistance, or are found to be dangerous, to us, or the environment</p><p> Where it will end up, no idea, what nature would say, a massive decrease in population, somewhere near 50%, and it keeps trying to do that, covid, aids, war, spanish flu etc, hasn't killed enough off though. So l expect scientists will keep bringing out temp fixes, 1/2 the world will continue to be food deficient, the other 1/2 will run to fat, not a particularly nice thought, but pretty true.</p><p> And a few of us will start to try and work with nature, give ourselves satisfaction, and end up being the last in the queue for dying of starvation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7605390, member: 86168"] round-up is fantastic spray, it has revolutionised farming world wide, r/u resistant crops, are a change maker for a proportion of the worlds underfed nations. That said, nobody knows the long term effects, probably because no one cares. It could be that the negatives are outweighed by the positives, l don't know. I have never sprayed grass, pre-cutting, it simply sounds wrong, nor do l like the thought of using it to control weeds, actually in the water. Having said that, 40/50yrs ago, we thought gramoxone pre corn harvest was fantastic, no more chickweed or bineweed, if harvest was late, then the facts of how poisonous it was, a young child near here, died, after drinking some from a coke bottle, out it went, then reglone was the safe one, that went, probably replaced by r/u. Organo phosphorous was banned because of it's dangerous properties, replaced by synthetic ones, which don't degrade like the o/p ones do, but l would bet, both were pleasing to sheep ! This world evolved into a habitable place, nature balanced itself, but that wouldn't keep the increasing population, so farming began, which changed the natural balance, and for many 1,000's of years, man has sought to control nature, by farming, with various degrees of failure or success. Basically we are losing, an increasing world population, and lifestyles, have meant we look to increasingly using short term fixes, that either are rendered ineffective by resistance, or are found to be dangerous, to us, or the environment Where it will end up, no idea, what nature would say, a massive decrease in population, somewhere near 50%, and it keeps trying to do that, covid, aids, war, spanish flu etc, hasn't killed enough off though. So l expect scientists will keep bringing out temp fixes, 1/2 the world will continue to be food deficient, the other 1/2 will run to fat, not a particularly nice thought, but pretty true. And a few of us will start to try and work with nature, give ourselves satisfaction, and end up being the last in the queue for dying of starvation. [/QUOTE]
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