% of Wheat that is sprayed with glyphosate before harvest?

Tx Jim

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What % of Wheat is sprayed with glyphosate just prior to harvest? My daughter asked this question and emailed me this article but I'd guess a lot less than 61% of the Wheat acres.

http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/real-reason-for-toxic-wheat-its-not-gluten/

Thanks,Jim
 
Between this and an article I read at lunch about how young hunters turn out to be gunmen at school shootings, I'm about as disgusted as I could be. Yes, I know I could just quit reading, but you just have to read and see how far they actually take it.
 
As just a coincedence I was looking at Snopes dotcom
and one of their very recent articles was about this same subject--that is spraying wheat with glyphosate before harvest---and they thoroughly debunked it. Suggest anyone read the Snopes article before responding.
 
Jim, I have no idea what goes on in other areas, but here in northern ND a LOT of wheat is "Rounded Up" pre-harvest. 61% wouldn't surprise me.

With the short growing season we have, and cool falls it makes a tremendous difference in getting the crop off without having to windrow it to cure and hope the falls rains don't sprout/destroy it, plus you get rid of tough weeds for the next crop year.
 
She contradicts her own expert, who states that farmers mistakenly refer to the product in question as a "desiccant". The author consistently refers to Roundup as a desiccant. Obviously, the purpose is to get uniformly killed plants that will all dry together but the chemical is applied to kill, not dry. Don't know if this is a good plan or not but it is clear the author is full of s**t and needs to do more homework.
 

Look at it this way...

IF YOU do not speak up, YOU forfeit your RIGHT to lend your GUIDANCE to the direction these things end up leading to..

Myself, I can CLEARLY see the Indoctrination our children are receiving in School (HOPE you can TOO).

Dummying-Down School requirements goes hand-in-hand with "No child left behind" and "Political Correctness" is about as STUPID and Irresponsible as it gets..

SPEAK UP and do it OFTEN (while you still CAN)..

Ron.
 
In my area 100% of the wheat it desiccated with roundup before harvest.
Nobody windrows anymore, aII the grain crops are straight combined.
 
Well there's one thing we can accomplish here in NY. Winter wheat easily matures and dies, dries down before being direct cut. Now if we could avoid the typical excess moisture so we could get a decent crop!
 
I nearly did it this year just to ding the ragweed long enough to
get in and cut the ripe wheat. I should have. I ended up using
the rotary mower on about half of the fields. Some in just a
spot or two, some on more like 10 acres. It was just an odd
wheat year.
 
I want somebody to make a farm display 1/64 scale with a
spray rig running right in front of the combine and then a
tender truck with roundup stickers on it at the end of the field
just so I can post pics of the display on the blogs just to p*ss
em off
 
Did you read the part where some expert told her it increases the yield because the plant will hurry and produce more kearnals before it dies .
 
This has been a hot topic on many farm and homesteading
forums this week.

It seems it is done fairly often in Canada ans some northern
USA areas, and rarely in the mid and southern wheat areas.
There is a 17 day waiting period, so there is some time
between spraying a Gatorade bottle amount of spray over a
football field size of field.

The report itself is increadably botched and totally wrong on so
many parts of it to be worthless, as Snopes points out.

Paul
Snopes wheat
 
Pre harvest spraying has become very common all
around me in the past five years. Everybody
owns a big high clearance sprayer so it is easy
and cheap to spray the wheat with glyphosate to
kill any green weeds and crop. It seems to work
well and has become almost routine for some. Is
it safe? I don't know but I am not comfortable
with it. The same practice is used on flax as
it often stays green late in the season
delaying harvest. It is tempting, a few acres
of mine is going to spend the winter out in the
field. So far I don't do it on my farm but
manyl do.
 

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