Re: [Native Gardening] Herbicides in the environment/ Re: A little perplexed.

 

To begin with, I'm not in an ag program. I'm in a natural areas management program. I am also a certified pesticide operator for my local FPD. The training materials did not come from Dow/Monsanto/ADM. They were written by the staff at another FPD. My Environmental Biology prof. said nothing about Rodeo, as far as I know.  He said that the dead zone in the gulf of Mexico is the result of algal blooms caused by fertiliser runoff. He was 100% correct. And you're denying that manure is a chemical?  Everything single thing on the face of this earth is composed of chemicals.  

I don't like GMO's, either.  But yes, hybridisation is a FORM of genetic modification. In addition, plants modify their genes very quickly to cope with environmental conditions, such as drought stress.

 

 

Guess what was used to control purple loosestrife in wetlands until the introduction of the loosestrife beetle (Galerusella spp.) That's right, Rodeo.   For many, many years. Mind you, it was not sprayed willy nilly, but only when hand control is out of the question.  And since each purple loosestrife plant can produce over 100K seeds, it was often out of the question. Rodeo is still used to control Phragmites in wetland areas, using the bundle/cut/herbicide method.  There are research programs going on as I type to find a bug that will eat only the non-native phragmites, but leave the native one alone.   

 

There is a time and place to use petro based herbicides and pesticides.   Our rule is 'not often, and not a lot'

 

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From: firekeeper38 <firekeeper38@yahoo.com>
To: nativegardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, April 1, 2012 2:15:30 PM
Subject: [Native Gardening] Herbicides in the environment/ Re: A little perplexed.

 

I think you need to remember who is funding many Ag programs in the US. They like to conflate manure for chemical amendments, just as they often talk about GMOs as being much the same as hybridization.

You should know better. Rodeo is not at all safe near water. This has been prove, this has even been proven in court. Your Prof lied.

If it were up to those people we sould still be useing DDT

Yours, Pego

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Any community college environmental biology class teaches that
> it is fertiliser run off that causes the massive dead zone in the Gulf of
> Mexico. 

> that the public can't buy straight glyphosate. We can't even buy it's big
> brother, Rodeo, which is safe for use near water.   

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