For background, this isn't about the human health impacts of these sprays, but of the impact on other farmers' crops and on wild plants: cash crop (corn, soy, cotton mainly) farmers growing herbicide resistant GMO crops often act like they own the whole countryside. They spray indiscriminately and damage or destroy the crops of people who grow things that aren't resistant, like my grapes, or anything else really. Because they are the majority of what is grown on farmland they have a lot of voice and power.
This has been an issue with glyphosate (Roundup) for years, but as weeds have grown resistant to glyphosate they're using stronger and stronger herbicides with new resistant varieties. Dicamba and 2,4d spray can drift for miles, damaging plants not only of other farmers but wild native plants in forested areas between farms, etc.
I just wish a similar decision could be made up here in Canada. Canada was the first country in the world to approve 2,4d tolerant soy and dicamba tolerant soy.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 14.6 ms ] threadThis has been an issue with glyphosate (Roundup) for years, but as weeds have grown resistant to glyphosate they're using stronger and stronger herbicides with new resistant varieties. Dicamba and 2,4d spray can drift for miles, damaging plants not only of other farmers but wild native plants in forested areas between farms, etc.
I just wish a similar decision could be made up here in Canada. Canada was the first country in the world to approve 2,4d tolerant soy and dicamba tolerant soy.