Roundup applied to wheat before harvest?

[Ed in Tampa]

My brother is an organic farmer about 50 west of Minneapolis. I sent him the link and if he had heard anything about this procedure. Unfortunately it is true and a number of farmers are using it. I then asked him if the manufacturer endorsed the use of their product in this way. He responded:

I cut and pasted this right off the Roundup label. Looks like they
didn't have a problem with it used in that way.

Preharvest (Feed Barley and Wheat only)
USE INSTRUCTIONS: This product provides weed control when applied
prior to harvest of wheat or feed barley. For wheat, apply after the hard-dough stage of grain (30 percent or less grain moisture). For feed barley, apply after the hard-dough stage and when the grain contains 20 percent moisture or less. Stubble may be grazed immediately after harvest.

Regards,
Dwight

I think this instruction is talking of something different. It seems to be oriented toward weed control where the author of this post suggested the practice was done to increase harvest.

Either purpose it does seem like there is a more than reasonable chance of ingesting roundup when eating wheat. No wonder I have this greenish glow at night.

[JPG]

Is not 'weed control' conducive to increased harvest?

[Ed in Tampa]

Is not 'weed control' conducive to increased harvest?

Probably but I think the original post suggestted the wheat felt stress and as natures way to insure survivial it trigger something that caused the plant to produce more seed.

In this suggesttion/warning they say apply it after the seed is at such and such stage which to me precludes the plant from producing more seed before harvest.

[tomsalwasser]

Interesting comments thank you all! I just don't think it's healthy to spray wheat with round-up just before harvest, then use that wheat in the food we eat. I still am not sure how common this practice is. Maybe I'll visit the food co-op and buy the expensive organic bread but I don't feel confident in the claims of purity made there either. Oh well I guess it's just a dangerous world we live in.

[dusty]

Is not 'weed control' conducive to increased harvest?

Yes, it would be good to have a weed free garden (or wheat field if you will) but at what cost. It has not been definitively stated that Roundup is OKAY to use on a crop intended for human consumption though it appears that is just what is being done. I entered into this thread believing that Government controls were keeping us safe. I now doubt that BUT I am not going to suddenly
avoid all bakery goods not made with organic flour. What I will do is continue to doubt anything that I am told about how the US Government is helping us (the little guys). The US Government is too busy; they got their hands full keeping their promises and deals with the corporate world.

Oops, I've gone and gotten political. That's a no-no but I am not going to delete it..

[beeg]

Dusty, don't forget about "GMO's". Another unknown.

[dusty]

Dusty, don't forget about "GMO's". Another unknown.

Yes, another problem though maybe not caused by the Government. In this case, it is the industry.

I love good tomatoes. I grew up with access to home grown apples, tomatoes, rhubarb, carrots and potatoes. None of what I eat today is as good and I suspect that most of that is do to genetic altering all for the sake of increased harvest.

[JPG]

Dusty, don't forget about "GMO's". Another unknown.

Yes, another problem though maybe not caused by the Government. In this case, it is the industry.

I love good tomatoes. I grew up with access to home grown apples, tomatoes, rhubarb, carrots and potatoes. None of what I eat today is as good and I suspect that most of that is do to genetic altering all for the sake of increased harvest.

Yours were 'ripened on the vine'. Today's grocery store fare is not.

[Ed in Tampa]

Dusty, don't forget about "GMO's". Another unknown.

Yes, another problem though maybe not caused by the Government. In this case, it is the industry.

I love good tomatoes. I grew up with access to home grown apples, tomatoes, rhubarb, carrots and potatoes. None of what I eat today is as good and I suspect that most of that is do to genetic altering all for the sake of increased harvest.

Yours were 'ripened on the vine'. Today's grocery store fare is not.

JPG
There is a degree of truth in that but most tomatoes grown to be sold commercially have been altered. They are altered to ripen off the vine, have thicker skins to prevent splitting when harvested and to have a drier insides, again to prevent splitting and lower water usage. GMO is a very bad thing in my opinion. I think one day we will regret all this genetic experimentation and implementation.

It also depends on where it is grown. I grew tomatoes in Pa and Ohio and I loved the taste. I brought the same seeds to Florida and tried them and they tasted like the tomatoes we labeled "Hot House" tomatoes when I lived up north.

I have experimented with different planting soils and I can now grow tomatoes here in florida that taste like a real tomato.

OR my taste buds have been so beaten up by the lousy tomatoes here in the South I can now be satisfied with anything.

[JPG]

You are what you eat.



Same goes fer maters!