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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Graystone who wrote (87389)	5/31/2001 1:06:37 AM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Let's Talk About Weeds or Weeds are Worse Than Ever Before If you are a farmer today then you know that things are done differently than they used to be. Today, nobody threshes, they combine. Fields used to be methodically rogued during the growing season for weeds and when harvest came the sheaves were gathered to the threshing area. The weeds weren't a big problem but it took a while to get a piece of land clean. Labour costs were different, the price of wheat was the same as it is today, seed farmers didn't send bags of seed all over the world, the weeds could be beat by hard work. That is all gone. Weeds are becoming evenly distributed among all the worlds growing areas. Once a weed is established it will survive and prosper and spread. It will do this in defiance of every new deadly chemical brew that is sprayed onto the food crops in attempts to eradicate it. International trade and farming efficiencies have guaranteed that problem weeds that integrate well with desirable crops like clover and alfalfa are sent everywhere. It isn't a war, it is an ongoing skirmish that the weeds will win. There, a lively topic that should spark some discussion here on Grace's thread