It is a rock and a hard place isn't it, personally I hate chemicals and avoid their use when possible, by the same token, there is no other way, (if my limited knowledge on this is correct) to grow the amount of crops needed to sustain farming, feed people and what have you. I have not gotten into the genetically engineered seed situation, but am told its been a popular subject on late night radio/talk show underworld, conspiracy theorists etc.
I have concerns, as its been used on our land, and will likely be used on an adjacent 30 or so acres that is going in corn this year by a large operator, that field slopes directly into our 20 acre pond, which is mostly pristine, non stagnant, no algae to speak of etc. Not sure what the fertilizer aspect of it is going to be as well, since the last time the entire field was planted was a long time ago (not in strips like my farmer friend utilized in there for soil erosion prevention for many years) It was just a marsh then, though some of it was part of a field, until the water level rose, beavers, then DEC/DOT put up sheet piling, and a way to control the water level, keeping it 6 feet or so higher. The rest of our place is up stream, but if I had livestock here, they could use it as a water source as 2 small creeks feed into it, that both pass through 2 other large swamps, water is filtered and pretty darn clean, coming from nearby small mountains as run off, springs and so on.
2-4D was applied to 7 acres on oats here, in '10, right now not much is growing in there, its tan, everything else is green, but with the rains and time, has to be long gone, but man that stuff reeks to no end when applied, I've ridden in several spray rigs, on many acres too, really are not many options for large acreages to keep weeds down is there ?
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