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Could someone show me actually figures on the high rate of cancer deaths from roundup. Over a 20 year period I sprayed thousands of gallons. Please give me an idea on how soon I’m gonna die from it. Also please advise on how they are gonna steal my land so I can head it off. Ed k I am just not a fan of roundup. I have lived on a farm for the past 15 years. I do foundation repairs and concrete for mostly farmers. Roundup is prevalent and paramount to many making money in the business. My folks used roundup religiously for years. Pa died of CLL last year. Brother in Law next door is confined to a wheelchair with MS and lost his dairy farm , fields and woods. I do not have any figures on the high rate of cancer due to this and many other ag chemicals. I just wish we did not have to use it, but I understand it's need. I do know that similar chemicals are now and have been taking the lives of many that came in contact with agent orange in Nam. A sad deal! That being said , I do not know many healthy farmers in this area anymore!YMMV!
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Just so you know agent orange is still being sold and used in the US. It’s used as a burn down for certain crops so they can be straight cut. Do I like that idea? NO! Proper usage is the key to most things in this world. Cigarettes are still legal and they have killed way more people than any chemical. Ed k
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Just so you know agent orange is still being sold and used in the US. It’s used as a burn down for certain crops so they can be straight cut. Do I like that idea? NO! Proper usage is the key to most things in this world. Cigarettes are still legal and they have killed way more people than any chemical. Ed k And alcohol, a legal product, is responsible for as many deaths as is tobacco.
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Just so you know agent orange is still being sold and used in the US. It’s used as a burn down for certain crops so they can be straight cut. Do I like that idea? NO! Proper usage is the key to most things in this world. Cigarettes are still legal and they have killed way more people than any chemical. Ed k And alcohol, a legal product, is responsible for as many deaths as is tobacco. Are we now talking drunk farmers with lung cancer ?
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watching the news this morning corn was a bust around here most planted to early before the rains came, cotton is doing good.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Just so you know agent orange is still being sold and used in the US. It’s used as a burn down for certain crops so they can be straight cut. Do I like that idea? NO! Proper usage is the key to most things in this world. Cigarettes are still legal and they have killed way more people than any chemical. Ed k And alcohol, a legal product, is responsible for as many deaths as is tobacco. Are we now talking drunk farmers with lung cancer ? There's probably a few of them around.
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Just so you know agent orange is still being sold and used in the US. It’s used as a burn down for certain crops so they can be straight cut. Do I like that idea? NO! Proper usage is the key to most things in this world. Cigarettes are still legal and they have killed way more people than any chemical. Ed k And alcohol, a legal product, is responsible for as many deaths as is tobacco. Are we now talking drunk farmers with lung cancer ? There's probably a few of them around. I meant to add ‘grins ‘ to that!
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Just remembering when we were kids on the farm. Dad had one of the first homemade sprayers in the area. He would put one of us boys at each end of the field so he could aim at us to know where to drive. When he got right up close you would take x number of steps for the next pass. We were often very wet with the spray when a field was done. It was just 2-4d so no big deal. Lol I’m still kicking so. Ed k
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Just remembering when we were kids on the farm. Dad had one of the first homemade sprayers in the area. He would put one of us boys at each end of the field so he could aim at us to know where to drive. When he got right up close you would take x number of steps for the next pass. We were often very wet with the spray when a field was done. It was just 2-4d so no big deal. Lol I’m still kicking so. Ed k I had a hose break while I was spraying beans with Dynap, basically 2-4-D, and it soaked my head and back. Went over to a nearby pond, took my shirt off, and washed off best I could, mended hose, and finished spraying the field. Used to have to mix the powered Lorox chemical in water to dissolve it, and have used my hand to do so. That was back before we knew better.
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I used raid one time to kill crabs I got from a couple of stripers.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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I used raid one time to kill crabs I got from a couple of stripers. Why I stick to Sand Bass.
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I used raid one time to kill crabs I got from a couple of stripers. Why I stick to Sand Bass. lol strippers
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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I used raid one time to kill crabs I got from a couple of stripers. Why I stick to Sand Bass. lol strippers Be advised...walleyes got teeth.
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You guys are sick. I like you. Carry on. Ed k
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Thus far we have drunk farmers with lung cancer and now, with a case of crabs, spraying the crabs with Raid.
Farming ain’t what it used to be anymore.
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Populations have also increased, Sam.
But at the same time I think it's fair to say that production has out-paced demand. We are selling wheat for about the same price as my grandpa and father got 40 years ago. Beef production is also much more 'efficient' than it was 20 years ago. You might have similar acreage in crop or similar numbers of cattle but the yield has greatly increased. Producing ourselves right out of a job....grin We bought calves for our high country from the same folks for 25 years - had to quit buying from them when their calves got too large - we couldn't use them. Those calves weaned 10 pounds higher, every year for 25 years!
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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We sure could use a heavy rain now.
Any rain would help.
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We sure could use a heavy rain now.
Any rain would help. Most of Texas has never ever wasted a good rain.
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