Pre harvest roundup banned
- Thread starter glasshouse
- Start date
What harm does it do pre harvest, I’ve been using it for years with no problems
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Because different soil types within a field mean the crops at completely different growth stages. This is exacerbated by drought conditions.
The Glyphosate evens it out so it's all ripe at same time.
Residues in grain.
- Location
- East yorks
Issues in years like this though you would have been waiting till october to cut some bits of our barley
Handy Andy
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- Location
- Wiltshire
I've got a problem with resistant chickweed. The pre-em's usually take care of it, but this year the amount of heavy rain we had disturbed the top layer of soil allowing it to germinate and by August my spring barley was full of it. Had no choice but to spray it all off. The barley was shorter in the stem this year and the weed was so vigorous that even just cutting the heads off would have been no good. By the time I finished cutting in October the whole lot would have been swamped. Without glyphosate I probably would have had to abandon some of it.
Do the residues in grain affect the animals it is fed to?
- Location
- S.E
Quite, but why ban it?
- Location
- S.E
How is this any different to the UK importing GM crops grown in the US?
- Location
- Cambs Essex
This is where it can still be used pre harvest by the new rules
That's not really the point. European voters don't want residues in their food, even if it is under the arbitrary Maximum Residue Limit, originally set at the limit of detection but testing methods have improved since then.
Finding out if foods have residues above the limit will take a bit of investigation.
Just done VI training day today it came up and covered topics on ppp renewal's and also the new to uk now has 18 PPP officers covering the uk that can and will be checking on us on top of red tractor . They can do no notice spot checks so even more reason to make sure you keep records and systems up to date . Max fine can be a 5 year stretch for the most serious cases . So boys it ain't going to get easier just more checks as they will be out to justify their jobs thats for sure .
Because there is no need
if it gets any harder eventually there will be less grain and it will have to b imported (not quality assured) the same as what happens here in n.ireland
It isn’t. Stop using common sense - you will never end up running the
A form of protectionism is to use an excuse like pre harvest desiccation, BSE, swine flu etc as an excuse to ban imports from us. Of course our beloved government never use this to stop lower quality goods coming into Britain if it keeps prices down for the electorate.
We all need to get our heads around the fact that the government don't care where food comes from as long as its cheap so that joe public have more money to spend on goods that have VAT on . It may seem harsh but that is the way they think . Don't agree with it one bit my train of thought is we should be producing food in this country and buy in top ups secondly . WE wont change it the NFU ain't got the power or balls to really fight NFU stands for no f-cking use .
ollie989898
Member
I can't believe that is true. Who are these inspectors employed by and how are they supposed to catch people out- what are spot checks going to uncover?
Gov appointed so i was told over and beyond red tractor .