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Time to ban glyphosate?
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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 1121" data-attributes="member: 212"><p>Hmmm .... It's a two edged sword .</p><p>We don't use glyphosate in our farming operation. </p><p>Hill billies at the end of the gully, we watch with interest as our neighbours spray the goodies out of their paddocks, continually regrassing with two year grasses and clover running a high input high output operation. </p><p>The other day the BossMan confided with me that there was probably no point in putting bees on their place this year as there wasn't a lot of clover.</p><p>We watch as they grow high sugar grasses and the lambs scour ..... we watch with interest as the paddocks are meticulously clean of weeds ....</p><p>I dunno . On our side of the road we have clover for Africa. We have Cali thistles that mine the elements from deep under Mother Earth ... and we have a soil structure with clover nodules and worms and bacteria.</p><p>We have a low input system ..... are not one of the top performing farms, but at the end of the day it's what drops out the bottom ..... and that drop out has sustained a money losing bee operation for three and a half years now.</p><p></p><p>Glyphosate .... it's all about whether you want to leave a life-style for the next generation, or a dustbowl.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James, post: 1121, member: 212"] Hmmm .... It's a two edged sword . We don't use glyphosate in our farming operation. Hill billies at the end of the gully, we watch with interest as our neighbours spray the goodies out of their paddocks, continually regrassing with two year grasses and clover running a high input high output operation. The other day the BossMan confided with me that there was probably no point in putting bees on their place this year as there wasn't a lot of clover. We watch as they grow high sugar grasses and the lambs scour ..... we watch with interest as the paddocks are meticulously clean of weeds .... I dunno . On our side of the road we have clover for Africa. We have Cali thistles that mine the elements from deep under Mother Earth ... and we have a soil structure with clover nodules and worms and bacteria. We have a low input system ..... are not one of the top performing farms, but at the end of the day it's what drops out the bottom ..... and that drop out has sustained a money losing bee operation for three and a half years now. Glyphosate .... it's all about whether you want to leave a life-style for the next generation, or a dustbowl. [/QUOTE]
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