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helwenRoundup (Glyphosate) triggers over 40 plant diseases, and more
One element of this is that it stays in the soil a long time. First example in the article is about a soybean crop that died of Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) because the farmer had used glyphosate on that soil _the year previous_.
I'm happy to say that use of this stuff on the farm is very rare and in very very small quantities -- usually to keep some of the tougher plants down that like to grow under the electric fence. And sometimes not used even then, thank goodness.
[EDIT] We didn't use it on the fence edges last year - L clipped the weeds short through the season. We did use a type of roundup though, on a couple of areas around the barn that had poison ivy.
One element of this is that it stays in the soil a long time. First example in the article is about a soybean crop that died of Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) because the farmer had used glyphosate on that soil _the year previous_.
I'm happy to say that use of this stuff on the farm is very rare and in very very small quantities -- usually to keep some of the tougher plants down that like to grow under the electric fence. And sometimes not used even then, thank goodness.
[EDIT] We didn't use it on the fence edges last year - L clipped the weeds short through the season. We did use a type of roundup though, on a couple of areas around the barn that had poison ivy.
