That’s because the price of agrochemicals has gone up massively^1 in the last few years and if a farmer is going to use one chemical it’s going to be glyphosate as it produces a clean seedbed.
Farmers are also doing less ploughing and other fuel-intensive tillage (which buries weeds) in favour of direct drilling and other minimum/zero tillage methods. This means that there’s mores weed left on the surface (or cover-crops if they are used to improve structure and nutrients) that need to be killed off before drilling and the most effective and cheap way to do that is glyphosate.
You can either spray or burn lots of diesel which do you think is worse?
^1 Even generic glyphosate has gone up from about £50/25l to about £150/25l.
I had 8 insect splats on my number plate after a 200 mile journey. We need to question whether *any* insecticides should be approved.
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That’s because the price of agrochemicals has gone up massively^1 in the last few years and if a farmer is going to use one chemical it’s going to be glyphosate as it produces a clean seedbed.
Farmers are also doing less ploughing and other fuel-intensive tillage (which buries weeds) in favour of direct drilling and other minimum/zero tillage methods. This means that there’s mores weed left on the surface (or cover-crops if they are used to improve structure and nutrients) that need to be killed off before drilling and the most effective and cheap way to do that is glyphosate.
You can either spray or burn lots of diesel which do you think is worse?
^1 Even generic glyphosate has gone up from about £50/25l to about £150/25l.
I had 8 insect splats on my number plate after a 200 mile journey. We need to question whether *any* insecticides should be approved.