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Posted by john in la on July 21, 2004 at 16:22:48 from (68.222.52.197):
Do not answer to you read this. Milkweed
As far as I know this is a weed that only is good for home owners that like the butterflies it attracts. I know many a person that has tried to kill this out of their hay fields with limited success. Then on the radio today I hear that farmers in ILL are planting and harvesting milkweed as a crop. They are selling it to pillow manufactures that are using it as a non allergenic pillow filling. Could this be the same gene of milkweed we are killing? So don't kill that milkweed; harvest it.
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