Paraquat

[Kidds]

It is true that even some of the big name companies have a less than stellar track record regarding operator exposure in many countries. Even the USA they seem very very lackadaisical in many respects.

Dupont- 2010 in the USA. Fatal phosgene exposure. Fudging scary.

I assume you have heard of the Bhopal disaster.

 

[Cowabunga]

I assume you have heard of the Bhopal disaster.

The Bhopal disaster was the result of corporate and local negligence in all aspects of safety and maintenance at the Indian Union Carbide plant that resulted in the escape of toxic Methyl Isocyanate gas that killed hundreds, if not thousands in a shantytown that surrounded the risky and dangerous chemical plant. Methyl Isocyanate was and is one of the key compounds that react to make Aldicarb, which we in the UK knew at Union Carbide Temik pesticide, usually in coated granular form which was, as anyone who used it can attest, rather volatile once the bag was opened and gave off [toxic?] fumes.

Here is a damning analysis of what went wrong at Bhopal’s Union Carbide plant.

 

[Wiltshire-Lad]

Ten little Indians.......the farm safety film at agric.college in 1970s.
Gramoxone in a lemonade bottle did for one of them.

Apaches…. shown it at school along with railway safety films.

 

[Billboy1]

metasystox that was horrible stuff used to come in metal cans bloody smell of it would make me wretch !

 

[Exfarmer]

metasystox that was horrible stuff used to come in metal cans bloody smell of it would make me wretch !

Meta, awful stuff, was it 75 when the ladybird invasion on trhre back of a horrendous aphid year, my neighbour had just bought a vast spraying outfit 24 metres with front booms. He made a lot of money spraying wheat in ear . In days of few tramlines farmers were shy of going in crops often with only 6 metre machine that late, but using that machine with no fancy cab was a brave thing to do

 

[ollie989898]

I assume you have heard of the Bhopal disaster.

Yes but that was in India, where you could understand safety regulations might not be all that up together. But in the USA they are still having these kinds of accidents. Look at this classic. 2016, massive chlorine gas release. How nobody died I will never know.

 

[essexpete]

f###ck me . . . “several weeks of wet weather that worried arable farmers” . . . FFS - what a soft c#ck . . . Try 3 years of no rain & no income, followed by the biggest floods in history that wipe out your first crop in four years.
Then try that about 3 times during a 40 year farming career . . .

Softcocks

I am not sure that the majority on this forum will know the state of the late Ted Moult's mind at the time of suicide. Do you know?

 

[Cowabunga]

I am not sure that the majority on this forum will know the state of the late Ted Moult's mind at the time of suicide. Do you know?

It is safe to assume that he was fairly suicidal.

 

[peewit]

Can anybody remember Dinoseb? It was the only chem we had at that time to control corn marigolds which were a real problem on our ironstone ground. It came in a metal can with a skull and crossbones on the side. There was a seperate leaflet warning of it's danger as it could enter via the skin. It worried us once as Dad came in with his arm yellow due to a spillage. Safety was not a priority in the 60s.

 

[Kidds]

Can anybody remember Dinoseb? It was the only chem we had at that time to control corn marigolds which were a real problem on our ironstone ground. It came in a metal can with a skull and crossbones on the side. There was a seperate leaflet warning of it's danger as it could enter via the skin. It worried us once as Dad came in with his arm yellow due to a spillage. Safety was not a priority in the 60s.

Fecked my dad's hands for years after he got some on him.

 

[Farmer Roy]

I am not sure that the majority on this forum will know the state of the late Ted Moult's mind at the time of suicide. Do you know?

If he shot him self as others suggested, I’m guessing his mind was all over the wall behind him

leaving others to deal with & clean up the mess, as is usually the case

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

An out of body experience....

 

[Vader]

Burn straw ,let it green up dose of paraquat bettinson direct drill simples .No slugs no blackgrass

Burning was also great on our sh!t outcrop land. Made the top inch or 2 nice to work into a lovely tilth.
Now had the either winter plough or attack a few times with power Harrow..

 

[Farmer Roy]

2 - 3 inch thick mat of oat straw, no need to burn or plough . . .

 

[delilah]

https://www.facebook.com/LandWorkersAlliance/posts/5082748055152177

 

[serf]

It is safe to assume that he was fairly suicidal.

And the sherlock Holmes award goes to .......