Farmers Fighting Biotech Superweeds Told to Keep Quiet, Damage Soil

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/farmers-fighting-biotech-superweeds-told-keep-quiet-damage-soil-1409577627

rop farmers in the Midwest are literally choking on superweeds spawned by glyphosate and other pesticides, and they are desperate for a solution. But any advice from biotech and Big Agribusiness is bad advice. Their top motivation is to sell more chemicals, not to ensure farmers have viable crops.It is clear that the lie of bio‘technology’ is affecting farms everywhere, and they have completely halted sustainable progress. Agricultural ‘experts’ are suggesting the deep tillage practice as a last-ditch resort. It won’t work and it will only cause more soil degradation. The only true answer will be to burn all GM crops and start immediate soil remediation.

Due to their original ‘suggestion’ of GM, extreme controls are now needed to fight herbicide-resistant weeds in some areas. University of Missouri weed scientist Kevin Bradley said in a report to farmers that one particularly aggressive weed that can grow 1-2 inches a day is Palmer amaranth, and farmers are seeing it everywhere.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Older traditional practices

such as row cultivation which is more expense seems to be the answer. Most growers went min-till or no till and dumped Herbicides and pesticides on their fields,thinking they could make more profits. No no,it didn't turn out to well. The old practices are retuning in order to get control of these super weeds and I mean super. These things have stalks like trees and you hit with round-up and it does not phase them. Several farmers in my old back yard have gone back to using weeders and shovel cultivators to get a handle on these things. Even walking the rows with hoes and corn knives chopping out these weeds before they seed out. Best thing,many are going back to non GMO seeds. Less grief and better yields.

[safeinOhio]

2. Pig weed

In 2014 Texas Department of Agriculture asked the Environmental Protection Agency for permission to use the restricted chemical herbicide propazine on 3 million acres of cotton threatened by Palmer amaranth.[10] The request was denied due to unacceptable risks to drinking water.[11]
from wikipedia

[hatrack]

3. 3 MILLION acres? Jesus . . .

Guess no price is too high to pay for cheap t-shirts, huh? Nothing can be allowed to stand in the way of that!