Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Looks like a bad year for soybean farmers

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!

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 ?

watching the news this morning corn was a bust around here most planted to early before the rains came, cotton is doing good.

There's probably a few of them around.

I meant to add ‘grins ‘ to that!

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.

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.

You guys are sick. I like you. Carry on. Ed k

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.

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!

We sure could use a heavy rain now.

Any rain would help.

Most of Texas has never ever wasted a good rain.