Chris talks about why he doesn’t want to use glyphosate on his farm, but also why people might want to rethink trying to ban the use of glyphosate on farms.
I farm on the prairies in Canada. 40 years ago we would till for weeds, seed and our ground would get so hard that the seed couldn't bust the crust and would die. Tillage was burying the trash plant fiber. We were ready to give up and seed our farmland to grass. We stopped tilling the ground and sprayed with roundup to kill the weeds before seeding. Now 40 years of roundup usage with no tillage our soil is covered with fiber and we get good germination and have good crops. 40 years of no tillage we have a cycle of the straw and fiber decaying and making top soil. Our ground is mellow and does not get hard. Roundup has saved my land.
Thank you for eliminating the use of Glyphosate. The problem is that Glyphosate is in small amounts in most all food & drink which we eat at every meal, day after day month after month year after year. & The effect of eating Glyphosate is that we need a healthy gut microbiome to function properly but Glyphosate damages or kill our gut bacteria leading to low energy leaky gut & allergies. & When you take a look at GMO's like Round-up Ready corn where the ground is sprayed Pryor to planting with Glyphosate & then as weeds appear the corn is sprayed & the weeds die but not the corn, it continues to mature in the soaked environment of Glyphosate taking in this herbicide which ends up in our food. Look at the Roundup Ready crops include soy, maize (corn), canola, sugar beets, cotton, and alfalfa. The other use Glyphosate has been sold for use as a desiccant which is spray on wheat or any crop you want to dry out fast, then we eat it. & We wounder why we don't feel good.
Thanks for feedback. It’s sometimes hard to decide what to discuss around these topics but overall our farm wants to encourage these discussions to help food health in a positive direction.
@@saltwaterinmyveins Yes, glyphosate is the DDT of our time. Charles Benbrook have done some great research on how its use world wide has just exploded since the 1970s. Also if you want to look into another possibility for autoimmunity, look up Grant Genereux and chronic hypervitaminosis A. Grant Genereux has written three free ebooks in which he mentions that the increase of autoimmunity is definitely caused by toxicity and not some defect of the immune system.
I've handled glyfosate ever since it came on the scene. It hasn't hurt me in any way. The slip and fall attorneys think they can cash in on this. Bunch of crap!
Great heads up. You have described the tip of the glyphosate iceberg. Just say 'NO' to this chemical, before we all go down with the ship. Thank you Sir for this important public service announcement!
A lively discussion point, and we know that Giant Agrichem doesn't freely reveal to the public the details of all its own tests that might reveal the full extent of the downsides we are concerned about
thank you! This is huge. I live in rural central Illinois on 50 acres surrounded by gmo monocrop fields and farmers. Cancer is in over half the households. Farmers are now starting massive use of fungicide sprayed by planes because the fields have exploded with fungal outbreaks, likely because glyphosate kills bacteria and knocks the balance in favor of fungi. We're also worried about drift because we grow shiitake mushrooms. Please keep this conversation going and update us on your experience as well as your conversations with your neighbors.
The use of a fungicde has NOTHING to do with any herbicide. There are fungicides today that control the fugal diseases that have always been around. Controling these diseases has increased yields and thus farmers are using theses products. You are clueless about this subject.
Just know that eliminating Round up because of Glyphosate is not the end. Read your ingredients on all of your lawn chemicals. MOST brands include that ingredient it is not just dedicated to Round Up.
Yes there are several generic brands that market non selective herbicides using glyphosate as the active ingredient. That happened after the patent term end over a decade and a half ago. Thanks for the feedback. We appreciate the support.
Very interesting video. I’m a farmer and a former Certified Crop Advisor and custom pesticide applicator, my question is if you are still using herbicides on your farm, what are you replacing Glyphosate with? Most tank mixes that I can think of which would replace the use of glyphosate would be made up of chemicals which are more toxic than glyphosate, as you said higher LD values. From a soil health perspective glyphosate really helped with the adoption of no till or reduced till farming which has done a huge amount for soil health and diversity of bacteria and other soil organisms. I’m not trying to say you’re wrong or be some promoter of glyphosate, I haven’t done the research you obviously have. I’d agree we over used glyphosate and have ended up with resistant weeds because of it, just as we did with atrazine in the 70s. But I’m sceptical about the idea of glyphosate being removed from the market. I think we’d end up using more chemicals to replace it. That’s just my opinion
For fallow applications we’ve replaced using glyphosate with cover crops, and despite strong criticism in my area we use minimum tillage before planting cash crops.
Which cover crops do you use and how do you control those? In my area we have limited success with cover crops. We have heavy poorly drained soil and we struggle to get cover crops established and in the spring they keep the soil from drying out. Anyone using cover crops around here actually use glyphosate to control them afterwards
Which cover crops do you use and how do you control those? In my area we have limited success with cover crops. We have heavy poorly drained soil and we struggle to get cover crops established and in the spring they keep the soil from drying out. Anyone using cover crops around here actually use glyphosate to control them afterwards
Which cover crops do you use and how do you control those? In my area we have limited success with cover crops. We have heavy poorly drained soil and we struggle to get cover crops established and in the spring they keep the soil from drying out. Anyone using cover crops around here actually use glyphosate to control them afterwards
It's bull shit. It's a way for lawyers to make money. I never seen so much crap lawsuits & it's everything. Sue the hell out of everything, all it does is raise the price for the people that need it.
If there wasn’t legitimate evidence that it caused issues then there wouldn’t be a case or payout to those who’ve been affected. Look through history and see the many products sold as safe that we now know are detrimental to our wellbeing like cigarettes, ddt, asbestos etc. If there is a chance that it’s dangerous then we absolutely should examine it so that safer alternatives can be used.
Good topic. I farm & there’s ups & downs on other side too…. Tillage, even minimal is speeding up our erosion. In iowa we’ve lost something like HALF our top soil in last 100 years. Tillage, erosion & run off have devastating impact on water pollution. Tillage also is extremely harmful on bacteria, fungus, earthworms & soil ecology. Tillage dries out soil & is contributing to increased drought & less carbon sequestration. REAL SOLUTIONS may include not using Glyphosate. But until farming is changed to a regenerative model & agri-forestry is dominant- we are always going to have massive downsides from agriculture. CRP where prairies are restored, food from trees, smaller human populations & people growing their own food are some fundamentals that reduce all these massive downsides. Great video & I think most agree Gly is not a without its consequences. Still need to discuss alternatives & the consequences of those too.
Appreciate the feedback. If farming was easy, everyone would do it right? It’s definitely not a black or white solution here. Open discussions and collaboration can help make a better tomorrow. Thanks for your support.
False!!! Tillage can cause serious erosion problems. Glyphosate is by far the safest herbicide farmers have ever used even much safer than many of the pesticides Organic growers use!!!@@kenneth9874
This topic is far from being resolved. We need some solid third party research to really figure out long term high and low use effects. We know they are there, they are just so variable from field to field and region to region.
Good comments but as a person who used to be in landscaping and have been fighting glyphosate for decades, its been farmers that get REALLY riled up when you talk about it. In a rural area we were almost literally threatened out of town just for talking about it. This evidence has been overwhelming for years, and in many cases its the people IN those rural areas who get most affected. If you want to go through more studies I can provide books of them. For those interested about a decade ago there was a good documentary on Monsanto, pretty low budget , but very good. I know maternity nurses who used to say she could tell when farms up river had switched pesticide formulations based on the birth defects. I know many microbiologists and they talk about how you can't even GET the formulation for roundup because its patented protected so its almost impossible to publish because they just ask where you got your samples from, and then threaten to sue you for using it for 'unlicensed uses'. I live in a province in Canada where they AERIAL spray it on forests. A 'mysterious neurological disease' has been spreading in the province and the govenrment won't even admit that it exists. We had a chief medical officer who was hired and the first thing she did was start talking about gyphosates and she was gone within the month. The 'new' Chief Medical Officer just tows the party line. "No real evidence, no real problem".
@@andrewgrosset9327 Yeah, I used to think it was ONLY New Brunswick but I know they do it in BC as well, and pretty sure they do in Quebec and those are the only ones I've checked.
Come on Mike, get real. Such arm-waving, generalized claims backed by nothing but anecdotes not data. "Books of studies"? I've seen almost all of them from Seralini to Zhang. List your favorite 4 or 5 and I'll look them up, should be easy for you to do.
I keep thinking about this comment. I just started working on a farm a few months ago, and the farmer acred like there was nothing wrong with that stuff. But of course, he never sprayed with me- he always just had me do it. That was about 3 months ago. My eyes haven't been the same, I can't eat pizza, doughnuts, etc for the first time in my entire life without getting sick and haviing to sleep. I ate some homemade bread 3 days ago and by the evening, my joints were swelling so bad that i couldn't use my hands or walk on my feet for around 24 hours. That @sshole lnever oce warned me about anything, nothing. And whats worse, he's a doctor. I used to feel sorry for all thes poor-pitiful-me farmers around here, but not anymore. I don't know what to do. What i do know, is the attitude these farmers have about this stuff is beyong enraging, especially considering what they pay per hour.
@@Themidnightegardener Yes, and above we see the typical 'party line'. "aaaaah stop being so melodramatic". This is LITERALLY from the National Institute of Health in the US when you type in 'effects of glyphosate" "Glyphosate also seems to exert a significant toxic effect on neurotransmission and to induce oxidative stress, neuroinflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction, processes that lead to neuronal death due to autophagy, necrosis, or apoptosis, as well as the appearance of behavioral and motor disorders." Thats in the DEFINITION. So yeah, hate to say it, but guys like the above and farmers are one of hte BARRIERS to get change done, and its tough enough to lobby against billion dollar corporations. And in fact you don't even need to GO by scientific studies against it, just look at ECONOMIC studies, the chemical is not even effective in the long term on field crops and simply locks farmers into monopoly seed buying which ultimately costs them more. But just go type in "childhood exposure to common herbicide may increase the risk of disease in young adulthood". Thats just a RECENT one, and just the THOUGHT to a farmer that that COULD happen you'd think would have them stopping using it, but the opposite happens and people just refuse to look at the studies. And you can go to any environmental group which collates the studies, because there are lots. Obviously in science you can't prove 'cause and effect' of ANYTHING, even cigarettes and cancer. But you can go look up what happened when the WHO published a paper on it, there's a good documentary on it, the US not only told t hem to burn the report they told them to fire all the researchers OR they would cut all funding to the WHO. But thats exactly the party line, just like climate change and cigaretttes "oh, your just being melodramatic, its not so bad". Anybody writing like that isn't worth even discussing it with, because any five second search will show it. What really funny is that often the rural people who will say "look at all these scientific studies" which of course are funded by chemical companies, are amongst to the first to tell you you can't trust 'big science' on vaccine shit becaues they are all crooks and corporatized. But then if it comes to their bread and butter suddenly the tune changes. To the guy above, thats some pretty heavy duty exposure. That kind of effect would normally take YEARS to develop, but I've known old guys 'back in the day' who often never even wore masks that said the saem thing. Nothing personal but I don't tend to take online comments as gospel, but that situation wouldn't surprise me, and like you, in landscaping it was not the OWNERS applying the stuff. In landscaping we had to take a test and at the very least we were trained, when this stuff ANYBODY coudl buy at the department store, still can. Just the other day I watched a report out of Maine where a school had to bring in bottled water because the water was poisoned with 'forever chemicals'. Thats WELL water. So we have literally turned this planet into a toxic petri dish, and yet the chemical companies try to tell us that it has no real effect on us.
I've been a licensed applicator for 40 years and following this issue for about 20. Glyphosate is one of the safest herbicides out there. You are absolutely wrong on the origin. It was discovered in 1950 by a pharmaceutical company in Switzerland. Can't find any reference to your stated use to clean pipes and boilers. A lot of studies on how safe it is are funded by manufactures but there is a lot of independent research that came to the same conclusion. What I have read otherwise is very carefully worded to imply but not outright say it causes various problems. I'm not saying it doesn't cause health issues but those claims are sketchy at best right now.
Dear sir ,I started farming in the 70s and have seen the effects of chemical usage first hand.We used minimal chemicals and used cultivation to control most of the weeds and some light usage of 2-4 d for broad leaf weed control. Glyphosate was much too expensive for broad acre spraying so we avoided it .Glyphosate ie Round up was marketed as a safe chemical which leached out as soon as contact with the soil ,this has since proven to be a lie .Almost all Americans have Glyphosate in their urine ,it is also in the rain water and river systems. Since Monsanto perfected GMOs Round up can now be used on crops which it previously killed .Glyphosate has been banned in many countries but the corruption of ag lobbies and hand outs to politicians has kept it in use . There is a health crisis in America and even Stevie Wonder could see it .
Glyphosate is an endocrine disruptor for one thing. When the endocrine system is disrupted, a myriad of health problems become the result. Chemical usage in general causes many serious health issues in humans and animals. A good way to look at it is that anything that fries a weed when applied, or kills a fly on contact, kills other life also. It’s just slow and torturous. Parkinson’s, cancers, etc…………….
Okay….. the patent No. 3,799,588 by John E. Franz in 1970 he started working at Monsanto in 1955 but the patent for herbicides didn’t arise until 1970. You are correct of it’s discovery in 1950 by Henry Martin who worked for the Swiss company Cilag. However his work was never published. Stauffer Chemical patents the chemical as a chelation agent in 1964 to remove minerals such as calcium magnesium manganese copper and zinc. Whew, glad we got that straightened out! Lol. Anyway I truly do continuously learn and grow with everyone’s challenging comments opinions and suggestions. Thanks for the support!
@@eckhartfarms Patient vs patent are two different things. I know you meant patent. Thanks for coming out and discussing. There are many microscopic effects of Round Up that affect pollinators and microbiology. Its similar to antibiotics. They don't kill you slowly but they hurt your body slowly by their deadly effect on bacteria. Therefore the use of antibiotics has been reduced for the last 20 years.
I’ve spilt Glysophate on my hands and breathed it in large amounts. I’m not convinced it has caused problems. I do get headaches however I’ve always had them. Interesting a mild keto diet seems to help with that. What is needed is good honest science but that is difficult with vested interests.
Good info. The more you research it the more problems you'll find with health problems. Healthier food is important to me and my family. We will not use it on our farm anymore. Once you've been sick and there is no readily available medical help to resolve your issues or even identify the problem then your behaviors change. I don't think Monsanto meant to poison anyone, but they did cover up information in my opinion. Farmers will protest it's restriction, but it's causing nation wide and worldwide health problems that can't be solved easily or quickly. You'll no doubt will get great criticism for your video. My comments will Garner them also, but glyphosate kills and sickens more than temporarily and more than plants. Monsanto is now Bayer. And their stock price has plummeted. The damage awards are astronomical for the cases brought forth thus far. It's a chemical that I'll be telling my grandchildren, "yes it was sprayed nation wide, because they said it was safe." I hate that it has such toxic and long term effects even though the are subtle and slow in occurring but it's damage is much greater than what the general public has been given. No hate to farmers who use it. I did. I'm done with it. Every farm makes choices. Those choices impact the world. My neighbor just sprayed 30 acres uphill from me. Not what I would prefer, but we live in community and our actions effect the community. As time goes by your decision to not use it will be seen as intelligent, but may be seen as hostile for a while. Prayers for our farms and farmers. I'd say you'll get more than a little criticism for this video.
Hmmmmm…..although I applaud this farmer’s general and overall concern about using chemicals like glyphosate, I’m afraid he’s no more credible with his information on glyphosate than many who propose banning this product. What makes his argument not convincing to me is his lack of credible evidence to support the many assertions he made. He acknowledged it’s a complex issue, which is good, but then proceeds to espouse views that he could not back up. Just saying ‘they say…..’ is not evidence. For sure, there is a debate around this herbicide active ingredient, and there’s a tome of critical literature review out there - pity some use was not made of that.
I’ll help him out: Robert F Kennedy Jr successfully litigated Monsanto as Glyphosate being the likely cause of NHL cancer. $290 million lawsuit. Look into this… If there’s any criticism I have of the man in the video, he should have went harder.
@@thomaspaulson579 Thanks for your response Thomas, but I think you misunderstand my sentiment. I applauded this farmer’s overall concern about the use of glyphosate and his recognition it is a complex issue. My concern was that he’s not made use of widely available information to back his argument and hence my comment about how credibly his story comes across. So, yes, as you say he should have gone harder - with the evidence to back it up, is what I would say. If you can help him with this - great!
@@brucechapman7431 my apologies for the misunderstanding. Regardless of the lack of evidence, I also applaud him for taking a position outside of the neutral zone. Nothing worse for the farming community than those who remain neutral. (Ex: RU-vid farmers)
Thanks Thomas - yes he is courageous to make such a stand. He reminds me of a farmer who was a local leader in our area (Canterbury, New Zealand) who challenged the conventional wisdom on many farming practices. I worked alongside him as a researcher and helped him with getting his messages out that were backed by the new evidence of the day. Although my research career was in entomology and pest management, I’ve had a longstanding interest in glyphosate as I worked as a R&D officer early in my career for one of the local chemical companies who had the licence to develop glyphosate uses in NZ. An article of the type that would provide valuable info to the farmer in this case is - ‘Glyphosate: Its environmental persistence and impact on crop health and nutrition’, from University of Florida if I recall correctly. All the best.
We can’t reduce fuel usage and carbon releasing soil movement without Glyphosate. We all want to reduce harmful emissions and Glyphosate is a vital part of that, otherwise we have to go back to intensive cultivation.
Glyphosate invites anyone into farming because it makes it easier. Globally. There's no learning curve or education level or expertise to it. You have decided to actually think your way through farming and not follow the flock. Well done.
It's interesting to hear someone speak this way. Lots of good points. Keep an open mind. We went organic dairy 15 years ago. It has its own set of challenges.
What are some of the biggest challenges you’ve experienced if you don’t mind sharing. My uncle was a dairyman, challenging in own right for sure. I love my organic milk products, thanks for your service!
@@eckhartfarms My biggest production challenges are weed control, what we call giant ragweed in particular, and fly control. We've had pretty limited resources (equipment, infrastructure) and I've made my share of mistakes which made for some financial challenges. I used to carry the weight of all my failures, but there are not many things I've had control over. Overall God has been good and it's been a blessing to raise our kids on the farm.
Watching this with an open mind, ive been using glyphosate for 35 years, one of its uses here in Wales is to kill couch grass which is highly invasive and destructive i have no idea how else to deal with this weed.
I totally hear you. It’s a tool in the tool box that has been potentially overused and has gotten a lot of attention from the public. I’m in no way saying a person should never use that tool, but here in the US, farmers have become very dependent upon it. Best of luck in managing the couch grass and don’t give up on trying to find alternative methods. We are seeing more weed resistance every year. Thanks watching and for the feedback.
How were weeds controlled before this chemical? Tillage? That's my guess. Sorry but we're stuck with this shit , farmers are not going back to sitting in a tractor for hours upon hours ever again. My opinion anyway. So to me the only answer is raise as much of your own food as possible, it's called gardening and yes it's work. Raise your own meat. Good luck
Yeah we were sitting in a tractor for hours yesterday doing in crop mechanical tillage of weeds in a non GMO canola field. Labor intensive but the inputs are low, very little diesel consumption for that implement.
@@eckhartfarms well its good to know someone is trying. I'm trying, I've been mulching my garden with hay and manure the the cows and horses waste with no problems but just this morning I watched a video of a guy that out goat manure on his and couldn't raise a crop because of the hay he fed the goat had been sprayed with grazon. So if it's still potent after being digested by an animal then what are we up against?
@@carlosmontana8840 yes there are handful of common pasture management herbicide that pass through an animal’s digestive system and can then contaminate manure used for garden purposes. The saying “know your grower “ comes to mind. Best of luck with your efforts.
Monsanto has NOT been in existance for over 6 years. This video is complete garbage and ignorant. What herbicides does he use??? What makes him think farmers would use any product that would harm their soils or their yields. He uses alot of "I don't know" in this video. He is correct he knows NOTHING about this subject!!!
Sponge brush the stuff onto precisely what you want to die and nothing else and you're golden. A plastic cup, sponge brush and two sticks and some tape and you can really mess up the weeds fast. I'm surprised there are no wicking seeder attachments for no-till to be honest.
I'm no farmer but I agree with your perspective. Lot of experiments do not take a wholistic approach because they simply can't. We can't rely on interventional studies that look at how things work in a controlled environment, without taking everything else into account. But we can look into observational studies, even then with a grain of salt as correlation does not imply causation in some cases.
I just sprayed with a home cocktail of vinegar and straw salt and Bayer milk. That Bayer milk alone does not kill weeds. It hasn't rained for a good week. About 70 % of the weeds are brown. Now the question is if the roots will be affected. I don't think so. Roundup is forbidden in my country except for professionals who gonna spary the yards of EU politicians. Get the picture? So it can't be worse than today for nature and health. I hear all kind of mixtures being made at home with sulphur and so. An option it to burn weeds. My town bought a weed burner cart and proudly set a house on fire. That weed burner cart is for sale now, almost new. Someone interested?
I agree with you completely, I have went back to more tillage , but I rarely do fall tillage without seeding a cover crop after . I have even went back to row crop cultivation , try to do one pass of a post pass herbicide only , I have been really surprised at the minimum amount of erosion by doing tillage , I have one farm that was long term notill and had horrible gullies , it has gotten much better even with tillage . I have been doing more crop rotation with winter wheat and hay in the mix , which I think offsets the tillage. Notill is supposed to increase water infiltration, I haven't seen it , I think the heavy application of chemicals to the fields does something to the soil that doesn't allow it to function as it should? A CRP field may be a different story.
So what are you going to use instead of glyphosate ? I assume you are not going to pull weeds by hand. Let’s have a video on alternatives to glyphosate which you feel are safer for your soils.
Herbicides are persistent/ not biodegradable. The alternative would be to stop appointing Monsanto / a.k.a. Bayer,Syngenta etc.,herbicide corporation to head the government U.S.D.A. The tax subsidized invasive plant agenda profit from making up completely false exaggerated reports of harmless plants to poison our natural areas to sell their product.. These toxic herbicides kill plants by hormone disruption that also affects human and animals and responsible for the modern recent mass human gender identity crisis. The Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi delta has a 350 mile modern recent phytoplankton plant DEAD ZONE because of persistent herbicide toxin. Worldwide modern coral reefs are now starving for lack of their needed nightly phytoplankton food. A simple concentrated acetic acid compound ( concentrated vinager) would not be a hormone disruptive persistent toxin or could use other evaporative acid compound and it too could be tax subsidized using the same invasive plant propaganda instead of the hormone disruption persistent agents.
Interesting conversation. I watch another crop farmer in the UK who explained that he uses Roundup to prepare the ground for planting due to min till, but because of their unpredictable weather he sprays again in order to kill off the crop just before harvest. I was amazed, I didn't realize such a practice existed. I thought the first spray would be ok as it should break down to some degree but the second would load the crop with chemicals. What are your thoughts on this apparent misuse of Roundup, are there realistic alternatives, and would cessation of the second spray reduce the amount of contamination to genuinely safe levels?
Your argument is generally sound, but just few comments: Paraquat is not the only alternative to glyphosate. Glufosinate is a very effective general herbicide that works through a similar action. It is also far less toxic than paraquat but is also worse than glyphosate. Also, your concerns about mineral chelation is probably not warranted. I use it for food plots and spray about 6 oz of 41% glyphosate per acre burndown. I really doubt that little chemical does a significant amount of chelation. Your other concerns are valid and a cautious approach is always a good one.
First off I have sprayed glyphosate for over 30 years. I use it for personal use and had sprayed it commercially for 20+ and I don’t have any issues or had any issues from using. And I have truly been exposed to it in great quantities. I personally think it is a great product.
Same here. 50+ thousand acres per yr and I always use my ppe. 90 percent of the farmers I see don't even wear gloves when they handle any chemicals not just glyphosate
My dad is a retired rancher, 91 years old. He has been using Roundup since it was introduced decades ago. He doesn't take the toxicity concerns seriously because he doesn't see the negative effects. Yet, his aunt who lived at the ranch died of cancer, he has lost 2 dogs under mysterious circumstances, my mom has dementia, dad has terrible digestive and prostate issues, and I have had Stage 3C breast cancer. Denial and cognitive dissonance will be the end of our species.
I don't have any issues with the use of glyphosate except for shocking wheat crops. At that point the chemical is sprayed on a nearly mature wheat kernel and I believe that this is why glyphosate has entered the food supply. I am dead set against this use of glyphosate. On corn and soybeans glyposate should be safe as it is used long before the grains forms. One point that people fail to recognize is how much time and fuel is saved when using glyphosate not to mention increased crop yields. I remember cultivating corn and beans and the weeds were still horrible. That being said there is no doubt our quail population declined when glyphosate was introduced. I'd say it is because the glyphosate killed a lot of the ragweed which is a large portion of quail's food supply.
Glyphosate needs to be given a wide third party blind set of extensive tests open to the public as it appears there are true questions as to what all it does to our bodies, our plants and our atmosphere.
That’s exactly where I’m at. I see both sides and the comments lend themselves from open ignorance all the way to legitimate concerns on both sides of the topic for and against. Enough people have raised what I believe to be some legitimate concerns about the well being of our own health as well as the soils health which I also believe go hand in hand. I’m no scientist but I do talk with a lot of other farmers and their own experiences and feelings towards the product. It makes their operations more efficient but a lot of them raise their eyebrows at how much product they use and how much they depend on that chemical.
great video. i struggle with this exact thing we do all acres in double crop winter annuals that we harvest in spring. then we do corn or beans in summer all notill. so we still use glyphosate other option is tillage. not sure what is worse in long run.
I hear you, no judgement here. It seems to be a fairly polarized topic as the comments have rolled in. Lol Thanks for having an open mind and being a conscientious farmer. We appreciate the feedback.
Excellent topic for discussion and one I feel we DEFINITELY need to be having. Before I get off in the weeds too far here, I am a new subscriber. You earned this subscription. I don’t find much to be in disagreement with you on. One detail that we differ on is that I do feel that Monsanto is an evil corporation and one doesn’t have to dig very deep to find evidence to bear out what I feel. Monsanto has charged “tech fees” in the selling of their products. Several years ago, there was a lawsuit between Monsanto and some small organic cooperatives involving several states. The lawsuit was over pollination. Monsanto claimed that the organic growers were benefiting from the technology of their genetic modification without paying the tech fees . The organic growers did not want to be cross pollinated with the genetically modified “Frankenfoods”. When the day came to meet in court, the organic growers showed up with their lawyer. Monsanto showed up with 19. I am retired and rent my farm in Iowa out. I am not one that thinks that we should cut off all use of chemicals. We have some really smart people in this country. I think we need to get them going on finding a viable solution if these chemicals are that dangerous to our health. I have heard it said that 24D is only one molecule away from Agent Orange.
You're recollection of the OSGATA vs Monsanto lawsuit is false Tractor. "Tech fees"? So what? Farmers do not have to buy any seed they don't want to buy. Best to you.
In France about a decade ago they linked glyphostate to non-Hodgins lymphoma. It was in a leading medical journal at the time. As a licensed applicator (tree farm) I am concerned about the use of Roundup to ripen grain crops. The chief appeal of Roundup as a product to me was its short persistence in the environment, i.e: two weeks and it's gone. During a short interval after harvest, however, I don't see why some of that spray couldn't end up in my grand-daughter's breakfast.
It does end up in the food. Wheat bran has the highest by far. Preharvest spraying should be banned. I have used Roundup for 30 years but no more preharvest for me.
Glyphosate does not cause any type of cancer nor did the Galloping Frenchman provide such evidence in his debunked study. Less than 5% of wheat is treated pre-harvest and it is not applied until Hard Dough Feekes 11 and there is not a problem with it. Google up the Slate article called, "You Don’t Need to Worry About Roundup in Your Breakfast Cereal". Regards.
@@donready119 The pesticides organic farmers spray ends up in food as well. Highest? Dose is what matters, the scare tactics of the EWG have worked pretty well.
I do personly agree with you on the herbicide use i have ben working in agriculture for 20 years and seen alot of differend operations in Denmark usa and australia in australia are they now paying the price for the over use of herbicides australian farmers was the first to go in to notill as a standard they are now a place where they can apply as much glyphosat as they can afford and where it has very little to no effect. The farmer i did work did notill for 30 years when i was there he was fed up with the sprying and herbicide bill he was using huge amounts of glyphosat parequat and atricine. His yields was going down and we sav herbicide dammege to the crops and nutrence defencies the only thing there was triving was the weeds. He did end up buying a moldboard plough and other tillage inplements and are now starting to see good crops again. The best way to farm as i see it, is to diversifie as much as the operation allow, get as many differend crops in to the rotation as posseable use what tool there are needed tillage fertilizers herbides, livestock and balance it to make the operation profitable.
My dad whole heartedly believes that when they spray Round Up no liquid touches the plant! It drives me nuts. The fact Monsanto make roundup ready plants should tell us everything. I've always been on the fence about round I get it. But it should not be ingested.
Monsanto has not been in existance for over six years now!!! There are many companies even foreign companies producing and selling everything that Monsanto once did because of there pure safety.
glyphosate is a type of salt. Not as detrimental as other possiblities. The debate point of it being a herbiCIDE is moot. There are hundreds of "Cides" and we do not wish to avoid the proper use of them.
The reasons you state for stopping glyhposate are all based on conjecture and speculation. Im not saying there are not legitimate concerns but u have no research or direct facts to back up your stance. You have cherry picked one chemical out of the basket, and even though it is a high use one, the alternative may be just as bad. People who arent farmers need to understand things that are happening, that you briefly mentioned, are much more at play,- The worlds food security is dependant on glyphosate right now. This push to make agriculture "greener", " carbon nuetral" and ESG rely on glyphosate. Remove it and that all crumbles. We are not going to produce the amount of food we are right now going back to tillage as the weed control. We are not going to fill the worlds food silos with the new "sustainable soil health" model. The production isnt there. We can and need to have the conversation but without using a realistic starting point we will accomplish nothing.
Hmmm…. Well the goal was to communicate both sides of the topic, and I’m unclear on what is being speculated. Monsanto did have patents as chelation agent and as antibacterial, yet never taken to market. That’s public information. The video also goes on to explain why we should not go banning the use of the herbicide to then use more toxic chemicals to get the same effect. Help me understand what wasn’t clear or miscommunicated so we can better communicate this in the future.
Also in my opinion America itself is over fed and under nourished, not a starvation issue here but a massive food quality issue. Plenty evidence to back these opinions. I’m not sure how glyphosate improves food quality, only quantity and efficiency. Our subsidized ag industry is what supports farmers, not the otherwise failing grain markets here in the US. All in favor of cheap “sustainable food” . Countries who have restricted the use of glyphosate seem to have higher priority on their populations overall health. We have have an addiction to chemicals here and I don’t think it is the chemical manufacturers responsibility to address it. It comes down to the producer and consumer to make the best choices for themselves.
As far as glyph being a chelation agent, I assume you read that properly. However that does not mean that at the levels used in agriculture that it proposes risk. Maybe it does but you have provided no evidence. All chemical, organic or inorganic, have toxic levels. We use many of them. That is the evidence you need to make your claim. You have speculated it is hurting soil health. Possibly it is, but again no evidence. I would say that on our farm, yields have significantly increased since we starting using glyph. That is a true fact. Is our soil health suffering from glyph? Possibly, but the benefits of no till on the soil seem to be far outweighing that. Possible the retainment of moisture in the soil from being able not to till it into silt are the reason fungi are doing better. I have no evidence to prove that but it is just as likely as glyph causing it. Both of our ideas are speculation without the research to back it. There are many processes happening and no one factor controls them all. I will not disagree that chemicals used in ag have a significant risk to them. However you need to look outside the US to what is actually happening in the world. The world is not over fed. I’m not saying it is starving yet either but if you significantly reduce production there will be starving. Not in the rich parts of the world where we live (I’m in Canada) but right away the poorer places will be run short. While the US does export quite a lot of food, you are a net importer. The big net exporting countries are using modern agriculture practices that do involve chemical herbicides. Take that away and there will be significant impacts. I’m not saying there shouldn’t be efforts to stop relying on a chemical style weed control, but solutions that have been proposed so far definitely reduce production and trading one chemical for another really doesn’t accomplish that either. You say you want a discussion and I agree that is a good thing so let’s keep having it but let’s stay where things are real.
Very laughable that you think glyphosate is hurting yield. We use glyphosate on our farm since it’s inception and still have great yields on our corn and soybeans
That’s great to hear… I think the comment is laughable also until it isn’t. In the past I was on the chemicals are awesome team. In the Pacific Northwest in dry land fallow applications it is common place to spray 4-5 times per year. It’s not uncommon to spray a gallon per acre per year. Many agronomists in our area are working on ways to reduce or replace the use glyphosate or at least make a rotation of chemistry because they also are now suspecting a yield drag, possibly due to chelation. My strictly no till neighbor who use’s glyphosate regularly has even shared these suspicions with me. On the other side of the coin, my farm management style has become much more intensive than his. The fact that glyphosate is a chelation agent is true, how much tie actually occurs, hard to say.
@@eckhartfarms not disagreeing with you on the other points you made. I do know we have for 15 years we have grown some non GMO corn and we typically see a yield drag on those field due to weed issues that we easily control in other fields that can be sprayed with round up. As far as health concerns I believe the chemistry we have to use in non gmo crops are much more harmful than round up. The farmer always gets blamed but the blame is never on the consumers unhealthy habits. Consumers never seem to remember when they point their finger at the farmer they have 4 pointing at themselves.
@@ILCornFarmer289 very well said! We grow what the consumer demands. Best of luck to you and your farm this year. Thanks again for feedback and support!
Farmers have set new yeild records almost every year!!! Glyphosate does not conntrol all weeds and never did. What other herbicide were they spraying with Glyphosate 4-5 times a year???? You seem clueless about this subject!! @@eckhartfarms
What are some strategies you are taking on your farm to get around glyphosate usage? Are other herbicides not as detrimental? I have been able to slightly reduce the use of glyphosate through some specific farm practices but usually it means relying on a different herbicide. Crops I want to seed later in the spring always require a weed burn off before planting.
I’ve used sharpen and 32 fertilizer to burn a patch down because I didn’t want to use glyphosate. Outside of that we stick to cool season crops and the minimal amount of tillage necessary to grow the cash crops. We’ve even started doing some in crop mechanical weeding with a time weeder and a rotary hoe.
@@jamesmedina2062 sharpen is chemical often used in conjunction with roundup to speed up a burn down process, however it also works by itself without roundup, but less effective. 32 is a reference to solution 32, a liquid based nitrogen fertilizer, the 32 meaning 32% nitrogen. Hope that helps.
How long will it take for your soil to be clean from Glyphosate? It interests me a lot as a eater to make better breads or eat them. I stopped buying McCanns oats from Ireland because they could not guarantee being RoundUp free. Anyways bakers will pay more for good grains to make their breads. The exact variety of grain will matter and the freshness. Well good luck to you bro and thanks for what you are doing! 👍
These are great questions that I don’t have a solid answer for. I’ve heard of glyphosate lasting over 20yrs in the soil, breaking down somewhere in that time frame to the chemical AMPA. There are many talking points on just that process alone and the effects long term from what I have read and heard. Hope to have answers in the future.
@@eckhartfarms Really liked the video, so thanks for that. But as a Chemist who has studied the degredation of many herbicides in soil and water (20 plus years ago) I am very skeptical of 20yrs. More like days for any appreciable amount and 1 or 2 years for any detectable amount.
Roundup (Glyphosate) is known as a non-selective herbicide and considered to be fairly harmless to the environment, food sources and animal life. It works on most persistent weeds and its main active ingredient is glyphosate. Glyphosate(Roundup) is an acid but for the application in Roundup(Glyphosate) it is presented as its potassium salt. The amount in the solution is 5.5 lbs. per gallon. Roundup(Glyphosate) is a post-emergent herbicide, which means you apply it when the weed is growing. The glyphosate(Roundup) targets the EPSP synthase, a key enzyme plants need to make amino acids, a crucial building block of their cells. Without the ability to make amino acids, the plant cells starve to death. The herbicide penetrates foliar structures, such as leaves, but does not penetrate woody stems or trunks, which makes it safe to spray around trees. Glyphosate(Rounup) quickly breaks down into naturally occurring carbon dioxide and nitrogen, rendering it harmless.
I'm gona start spraying this week , I really don't want to hook up to the sprayer. 7 Years I went from full conventional tillage to 100% no till and 100% cover crops ,my weed pressure is better but I'm still told that I need to spray 2 times a season. I would love to find something other than glyfosate based products.
I think your analysis is based on speculation and rumor and recent court cases where the product was probably misused is not correct. I think as a home owner with a small garden and landscaping responsibility for trying to make my property look nice in the neighborhood, Roundup and other herbicides go a long way to maintaining my garden and removing persistent weeds that interfere with a nice looking lawn and a productive garden. I must have been using it for over 20 years and it seems to have no long tern affects, because I have to reapply it every year! I understand the product breaks down into into its basic safe compounds composed of C,H,P, N and O and have no detrimental affects on plants after a few months. It may be different for farmers who use it as a post-emergent weed kill product at maybe higher dosages, but I do not see how it behaves any different than the product I use around my house and small farm (unless you misapply it). You do reapply it every year-right! I think your subjective analysis is flawed
Wow this is a pretty terrible video, so no evidence and a lot of opinions. This isn't just used in the US it's used in Europe too and we're pretty strict over here for chemicals. A rational discussion would need some peer reviewed studies supporting any of your claims. Fyi just because something is organic doesn't mean it's not toxic in fact it can be way more toxic. Glyphosate has been a long widely used safety record.
@@andrewgrosset9327 There was nothing in this video demonstrating it's a remote problem. There are many natural products which are far more dangerous. But people think if it's natural it has to be good or safe.
Amen to you brother. And yes, what you describe about science is right. But that's not real science in my opinion. I think of it like you do, you have to look at all information and all systems and think how they're working together.
Today it is the same story with roundup than with DDT in the 7Oies. As a farmer how to get rid of all dirt in your crops and still get a decent upbringing. Tell me.
I am wanting to spray under brush on my farm, but I do not know what to use. Fence lines and corners in the field starting to grow up. I cannot control anymore with my bush hog
@@heffptbo I understand the struggle, I’m not %100 anti Glyphosate usage, more just concerned about the over usage and dependency of big AG using the product. Especially on food production. Overall I think it goes with the saying “everything in moderation.” Thanks for watching
I agree completely, I would recommend legislation to have more discussion around the detrimental effects banning glyphosate would have. By no means do I think this is a black or white discussion. My good friend who farms next door to my fields uses glyphosate regularly. It’s what works for his operation. We respect each other’s opinions and he also has his concerns about our dependence on the chemical industry.
How do we know those minerals are unavailable to our plants after tied to gly? Do we know if the soil sampling processes shows these tied up minerals? And, if the process of analyzing samples frees this bond, theres no reason a release agent couldnt be applied to increase mineral availability. The antibacterial function is a problem, there should be studies showing levels of toxicity to microorganisms.
Glyphosate is supposed to bind to soil and not leach into groundwater. That may be true, but where I’ve sprayed it on grass, the soil remains sterile. Nothing grows on it. Looks like glyphosate binds to soil but is still active as a herbicide.
12:00 WISDOM. We all need this approach of respectfully trying to understanding all the considerations. It enables respectful conversation and even peaceful, level headed disagreement. It allows us to more wisely and convincingly communicate our stance on something, while being more empathetic and appreciative of our fellow humans.
wow, lack of understanding basic chemistry is staggering...yes round up is a salt, a high tech salt, salt has anti bacterial properties, salts are typically in ion form. Its one of the least toxic chemicals on the market.
@@eckhartfarms Sorry, I wasn't familiar with a root rot round up connection, so I had to familiarize myself. Found a few studies, no connection found in wheat and slight to no connection in sugar beets. It really doesn't make much sense to me due to the short half life of glyphosate, but salt may have a temporary shock to soil biome. Also application could make huge difference, if applied primarily foliar, or primarily soil. My recommendation would be to look into the new targeted sprayer tech, so chem only goes where you want.
If your soil biology is balanced correctly there is very little need for pesticides. Let’s quit trying to fix a symptom and go after the root cause. Get your microscope out and learn about the soil food web and you might be surprised how well things go if you work with nature rather than against her. Weeds thrive on nitrate nitrogen and high bacteria, low fungal soil ratios. Fix that and your problems will pretty much go away.
Yes the microscope is what has helped us make the changes away from pesticides on our farm as well as be more profitable. I think a big concern is the growing acres each farm is taking on. 10k+ acres per farm is too much for a farm to be truly connected to the soil. Farmers are relying on technology (chemicals and fertilizers) to make them more efficient because that’s what they are told (sold) by they’re chemical salesperson.
@@eckhartfarms Small to medium farms are closing down everywhere and that's alarming because it's going to be extremely difficult for someone to get into farming or to buy a farm. Even 15 years ago there was a significant difference in number of small farms operating. Average acreage per farm being 200 acres with a diversity of crops and not just soy and corn would be ideal
@@lrn_news9171 100% agree. We have long term hopes of sustaining economic independence from government subsidies on farming 800-1000 acres in our area. We know that means we would have to commit a significant amount of time and effort to marketing our products locally as opposed to the commercial markets. The current model of get big to survive is not serving anyone well other than big business.
@@eckhartfarms It's difficult to remain profitable and some dairy farmers in Canada are opening other operations like producing cream, tours for tourists, various creative ideas to maintain their operation because for small and even medium dairy farms it's been more and more difficult to remain profitable. I worked on a dairy farm 15 years ago and I don't know if they're still operating, he had 48 cows. I knew another one with 30 which is very small for today's standards but 14% closed down since then. When you look at the corn belt region you can see that numerous dairy operations were torn down and there used to be many but they switched to crop farming because of the subsidies on corn I would imagine. Crop farming became a better option. Many are closing down because they don't have children interested in farming.
There will always be weeds. You can soil health your way out of them. You will however lower your production and you need to be informing people as you sell them on this. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done but don't pretend it's a no cost solution.
What really concerns me is feed for cattle being sprayed. I heard a large scale gardener talking about using the manure from hay he bought at feed store being sprayed with some kind of long lasting herbicide that destroyed his garden for years.
@@Jerry-lr9yb spraying feed is the most moronic thing. The feed store would be in court if i had bought hay for my animals snd found out it was loaded with herbicide. It is criminal the amount of chemical put in our food chain.
Trade or brand names are dozens containing the picloram chemistry, grazon is just one of many that contain the picloram ingredient. And the large scale gardener injured by the long life of picloram is an idiot since he should have known what that hay was sprayed with before he ever considered doing that to his own wallet. Each state runs it's own pesticide licensing program thru their own Department of Agriculture. In my state I can buy the study booklet for $25 that lays out the latest information on every product likely to be used along with techniques to calibrate spray equipment, etc.. You can't afford to drop $25 on that booklet to learn all about the subject, you aren't running a very profitable large garden and you are doomed to repeat the large scale gardener's mistake.
After reading this guy comments he is cluless about this subject and is spreading garbage and misinfornation!!!! Why does he use other herbicides that are more toxic is question he needs to answer??
I don’t recall mentioning personally using any herbicides that are more toxic? This was a video discussing the pluses and minus of using glyphosate and why people my want to consider NOT banning it use in agriculture.
What do you use today? What do you use to control the cover crops? You did NOT mention anything because you did not answer the simple questions. Name a safer herbicide than glyphosate? I stand by my statement that you are using a more toxic herbicide and you KNOW it thus NO answers.@@eckhartfarms
@@davidadcock3382 we are using minimum tillage in place of glyphosate, and also to terminate our cover crops. Is there a non selective alternative to glyphosate or Paraquat that I should look into? Also you use words like clueless and ignorant and misinformation to back up your opinions on me sharing my experience. Yet I’ve backed up my claims with actual information and tried to be positive in our interactions. Please do the same if conversation is going to continue.
Mnimum tillage does not control the weeds or the cover crops for if it did no one would use herbicides. Why are you so afraid to name the herbicide or herbicides that you use????? I stand by my statement that the ones you do use are more toxic thus NO answers!! Please answer the simple questions that I ask. You have backed up nothing YET. @@eckhartfarms
Thank you so much for your efforts and also for sharing. I stopped using roundup for the same reasons and just recently learned that it was designed to evaporate up with water off the land and return in the rain. I personally believe that population control was the reason for it's creation. Its in everything today so I detox as often as I can and try to eat as clean as I can.
"just recently learned that it was designed to evaporate up with water off the land and return in the rain." That's just a nonsense claim made by the organic industry. "Population control"? Now you're getting way off the rails of common sense.
interesting i read the comment below and like the thought put into them. ive been poisoned with ag chemicals both direct and indirectly the family wont quit because the alturnitives arnt polotically acceptable michigan state u has a book out weeds and why they grow we can feed the soil and reduce the weed problem used some of the practices and they work 7 to 1 calcium to magnium ratio and there is a weed reducation
Everything is useless if just 1 or 2 or 2 million farmers quit these practices...South America is a big market for US and EU chemical companies, and here in EU and there in US we eat a lot from there
Growing less crops and grazing more cattle should reduce the need for herbicides. Generally only spot applications are needed to manage pastures. Hay fields rarely need herbicides although many choose to use selective herbicides to grow horse hay like Grazon. There is no excuse to use herbicides at all on home gardens, I have never had a weed problem, and the same with fungi.
Yes!! I’ve had that thought so many times, however some my holdbacks are that I have very little infrastructure to support an animal operation, and our markets here are not very favorable for livestock. I know we are a profitable operation growing crops and I am hesitant to make a switch to livestock to possibly then fail as a business from a lack of knowledge, capital investments poor market timing or all of the above. I’ve tried partnering a few times now but with little luck. The sheep were the most successful so far but he went broke himself. We’re hopeful to partner with a cattle operation later this year to get our feet wet. Thank for the feedback and support!
Ever wonder why all of a sudden people became allergic to gluten? Gluten is good, its in wheat, barley, and some other grains; it gives bread its texture, and helps the dough rise. Now gluten is somehow bad. It aint the gluten thats bad. Think about it.
Thank you!!!! You stay composed throughout this informative video. I don’t think I could!! Glyphosate is deadly. People really need education on this. I do educate the dangers of glyphosate and many other hazardous chemicals on a small scale, and it is hard to educate people
@@jimmaag4274 please elaborate I assume as you consider that Glyphosate is deadly and as far as I know in the Hirarcy of agri Chemicals it is way down there with the least toxic chemicals used all the rest must be absolutely Deadly so nothing could or will meet your standards, and all should go. No mention of paraquat which is about as toxic as cyanide apparently a suitable sub for Glyphosate
It is your decision as to what herbicides and tillage practices you use, but from this it doesn't seem that you have a lot of data. The biggest problem I have seen with glyphosate is overuse, leading to rapid development on resistant weeds because of laziness of many farmers. It was recommended (and predicted) many years ago that this would occur if herbicide rotation was not used. It was and is a useful tool for farmers, but it got too cheap and easy. As far as being in the food, and causing cancer-I need to see proof, not anecdotes.
Canola gets sprayed with glyphosate so I stay away from that! Canola has been genetically changed to handle glyphosate just past seedling.. I made the crap for yrs and dealt with it raw.. paraquat too, I hate that stuff.. I was the strictest guy on site when it come to staying clean but I still regret working with such toxic chemicals.
Sorry to hear about experience. Maybe we should do video on how our operation grows non gmo canola and doesn’t spray it with glyphosate? We use some in crop mechanical tillage to control or suppress weeds until we can get it to canopy. It is definitely a more labor intensive and time sensitive process. Anyway, thanks for watching and the feedback.
@@eckhartfarms that’s great farming definitely needs to change! I don’t blame the farmers I blame the political restraints and sick systems designed for monopolies to succeed..
The problem is the GMO crops you Americans grow, now you're getting resistance in the glyphosate ready GMO crops which has pushed up L/ac rates. Misuse, malpractice and GMO crops is the real issue
Most Herbicides are sprayed on Growing crops. Even the pesticides Organic growers use are sprayed on growing crops and are some much more toxic. The rate has always been the same!! Pitifull ignorance here!!!@@napsac4816
It was interesting to hear a discussion about glyphosate by someone who has thought about it, rather than someone just parroting the anti-GMO scare stories. I have no background in toxicology, but when I first became exposed to the anti-GMO movement, something didn't ring true to me. Years before, the scientists doing work on molecular biology had been extraordinarily conscientious about safety, probably more than any other scientists ever. Had they morphed into irresponsible Frankensteins in the interim 20 years? I decided to learn what I could by reading both sides of the story. Glyphosate was a part of the story, and it was portrayed as very much less toxic than other herbicide alternatives. It began to be portrayed as dangerous only by the anti-GMO side, and at first, this was ludicrous. For example, the first Greenpeace anti-GMO flyer I read claimed that glyphosate was "linked to" non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and gave a reference to a paper by two Swedish scientists. But when I read their paper (which was in English), they had studied dozens of agricultural chemicals, found some which were correlated with getting non-Hodgkins lymphoma, but glyphosate was NOT clearly correlated. Apparently "linked to" meant that it was included in their study. That's just dishonest. Mr. Ekhart does not seem in any way dishonest. I have one picky point to mention. The characterization of glyphosate as a chemical used to descale pipes misses an important point. When glyphosate was used in that way, the pure chemical was used. It was applied as a molten salt, not as a dilute solution. I don't think it was used very much. As an agricultural weed control, it is applied in extremely low concentrations, like a cup or two per acre. At that dose I doubt that it removes significant minerals from soil. And eventually the glyphosate breaks down and those minerals would be returned to the soil. I don't want to be posing as an expert here, but what Mr. Eckhart said was straight from the anti-GMO playbook.
Application rates for typical 4lb active ingredient glyphosate in our area is 24-40 oz per acre depending on the weeds and the timing. Back in the day 12-16 would do the trick, the weeds have became much more resistant to the chemicals do to the potential overuse, and require more to get the job done. The list of glyphosate resistant weeds continues to grow in our area. Thanks for the time and effort of the thoughtful comment. We continue to learn so much as we continue to share our experience.
The rate has always been 24-40 oz. You were lucky it would do the trick when cutting the rate. Herbicide resistance has always been around with herbicides. Glyphosate has NEVER been a stand alone herbicide and controled all weeds. That is why it is never used alone! Your ignorance on this subject is outstanding!!!! @@eckhartfarms
@@davidadcock3382 cool, here is link to a copy of 2007 label of glystar. Go to page 15. www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/ppls/042750-00060-20071217.pdf
@@davidadcock3382 I don’t recall stating it is used alone. It’s used with a sticker/adjuvant/wetting agent, and sometimes a buffer depending on the water quality.
Thank You for sharing. Page 15 and 16 shows 32 oz to control all weeds listed on the label! What herbicides do you use today? What do you use on a cover crop? Many pesticides are used with sticker/adjuvant/wetting agent and buffers. Water quality does make a difference. @@eckhartfarms
You guys know if you burn hay with a herbicide/glyphosate, and the smoke gets over your clothes, if it would be denatured or would it be stick in clothes? Is it washable? I had a friend burn a bunch of hay and I was stuck in the smoke and I suspect I might need to clean the clothes but I have no idea how to remove this from clothes? Any tips? Or thoughts? Idk for sure if they used glyphosate Or there are other herbicides commonly used for hay. Iv had poppy eyes and darkening of my eyes since I had the clothes in my room, I did wash it once on a short cycle but I’m trying to see what the hazard is if it’s burned
So I got a job on a farm after moving to a small rural comunity last October. I spent two weeks spraying the farm with this stuff. And now, I can't eat bread without filling like I'm dying. The farmer cated like it woud almost be safe to drink.
Well, lets get rid of Cancer giving Mobile Phones, Motor cars as they are murder weapons, cigarettes for lung cancer, lets get rid of everything as we are going to die using them , get rid of milk as a fellow I know , drowned in the milk dish for his cat. Oh man, what a new world we will create.
@@aspirit1663 Well, I have been using it since 1984 and no problems here, not like the poor folks who smoked and died of lung cancer and the others who had their legs amputated, so you can see what I am on about, anything will kill you. Why not pick on Botox ? women inject that deadly chemical into their face , all in the name of looking PRETTY.
people make mistakes. Perhaps they used a crappy car yesterday that killed a neighbor with carbon monoxide or hurt him via nitrogen oxides. But we learn from our mistakes and stop using lead in our fuels or paints. Why are you against learning? If you family member shot everyone in his family in a drunken rage would you take the gun and give it to a serial killer or bury it. We need to celebrate things that preserve life not things that cause death and sickness.
@@jamesmedina2062 What you dont really get is if farmers stopped using Roundup, people like you may end up starving, cost of food would go through the roof because of food shortages, Yeah, we all hate chemicals, but the benefits out weigh the negatives. More Fuel would be used, more soil erosion, through wind and rain, more tractors ploughing the ground and the dam ryegrass taking over the crops causing massive food shortages. Perhaps you may like to move to Holland where they want to get rid of farmers, and live happily everafter ? I bought a tractor from farmers who class themselves as ORGANIC, sadly there farming career is going to be short lived.
