Its like havi ng a set of springcompressors in yr tool box, rarelyused but very useful when it is.
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- Thread starter farmer dave136
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deleted user 837354
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If glyphosate is banned they will soon find something else that is a total non-selective herbicide. It can't be that hard to find something that kills plants.
We are already working towards it. Basically for us means we will crop 50% winter wheat and 45% fallow, 5% grass with the fallow being in an overwintered stubble scheme. The maths look half decent with a much reduced workload and equipment requirement. Effectively we will become part time which to be honest sounds good. I don't care whether people starve or eat chlorinated chicken because we will be fine and in a few years they will undoubtedly call us all back to produce food again. To be honest we need something drastic to happen to give them all a reality check.
- Location
- South Wales UK
Big boys be buying artic loads to store will they???
Finding something that kills everything is easy. Getting it registered for use as a pesticide is a very different affair. How many total herbicides remain on the approved list?
Paraquate - Gone
Glufosinate-ammonium - Gone
Diaquate - Gone
Glyphosate - Struggling
deleted user 837354
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You forgot fire.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
You may find that roundup is *only* allowed for DD or inter row use....
- Location
- somerset
I thought some of the gm were bred to be r-up resistant ? quite liked the idea of spraying a growing crop, and killing every thing bar said crop!
As far as I can tell it because of that that it might get banned.
michael N123
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Be hard to use illegally when you’ve got the only burnt off fields in the country
yeah, bit of a give away that yellow field......
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
they will starve then as if they ban uk product they will have to ban the millions of tonnes of soya and other no eu crops they import
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
They won't ban others products from coming in. I always thought if they ban a product because it's a carcinogenic surely they can't then import it from else where. I then noticed that the Germans have stated that they are banning it for environmental reasons. Which would then allow them to still import.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Austria are going for total ban on all imports as well.
If they get that through parliament i wonder how much food will be left on there supermarket shelves???
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
I hadn't heard that. They will soon change their mind when their hungry.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
I’ve seen the result of that in Argentina. RU resistance is scary.
Low ground pressure
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How good are straw rakes at getting a flush f weeds and killing them? If you went through every 7 to 10 days or so
Farmernickt
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- Location
- The Fens
What became of the green round up that was being developed for the US? Did it fall flat or are they stock piling it ready for a ban??
renewablejohn
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- Location
- lancs
What is the shelf life. I could do with another 5 ltrs before it gets banned. For the amount I use that would probably last me 20 years by which time I will hopefully have retired.
Not bad at creating stale seedbeds, though mine only goes 1/2" deep each time. Not great at killing the plants as the tine spacing means incomplete coverage. You'd need multiple passes which would have some effect. A light set of discs would be better IMO.