Corn is In

[MikePal]

You know that corn is worth a lot when farmers are converting huge chunks of overgrown (bush) lots back in growing corn.

My neighbour paid $1,200 an acre to clear 40 acres. With crop yields of about 175 bushels per acre and sale at $5.50 a bushel, farmers can pull in $1000 acre. So it will take a couple of yrs to pay that off.

In the mean time he's cleared 40 acres and will make a huge food plot for me to hunt on.

[js4fn]

Roundup has next to zero Oder the adjuvants (sticker) could have smell or the mix of another herbicide or insecticide depends what’s being sprayed and crop stage of what was used

[Stu]

The Round Up I have here has a very light odour and that is what we were basing our experience on at the time it happened. It was floating in the air enough that you could detect the odour. I don't know of any other sprays that are similar. I know that we both remembered that it wasn't an obnoxious smell.
I might be wrong and I wouldn't like to think that I was falsely blaming it on Round Up.
The only reason we had some here was that we were trying to kill off some poison ivy in the fence row. My wife is dead set against using it but at the time we didn't have much choice. The fence row was full of it.

[MikePal]

If what you have is fairly new and bought in Canada...it's not strong enough to kill a weed.. They watered it down so much I truly believe it would be safe to drink.

Now the Farmers stuff..that is a whole other ball game. I use it here and it kills full grown trees..make me nervous to get any on me

[js4fn]

Roundup was Monsanto now Bayer
Roundup is original name of glyphosphate
There’s 12 plus generics now Chinese have a copy it’s cheap plus so many mixes can’t keep track of them all if you smelt it wasn’t roundup alone

glyphosphate has been taken out of the product you can buy.
What your buying at home depot likely vinegar and salt

Not picking on you stu

[Stu]

I have had this stuff around since before the incident in 2012. Probably bought it around 2005. Annie moved in with me in fall of 2004 and we found out about the poison ivy in the spring of 2005 when she got covered with it. I didn't know any better because it doesn't seem to bother myself or my grandkids for that matter. There were wild grapes growing in the fence row so we would get a good feed of them when they came to visit in the fall. It was actually growing up the garage and I actually had it to where it was growing all the way around it. Never had an issue myself.
I took a slip to the MNR office to identify it and they told me it was a type that should only be found in the Niagara to Point Pelee area. They assumed that birds probably brought it here.
I didn't take it as though you were picking on me. No offense taken.

[werner.reiche]

Sorry to to hear that Stu-hope she is getting better .


I was on the fence with this ,until I figured out -the engine uses 10 % more of it ,for the same umph........so where there is saving for the environment?
Sometimes Environmental issues makes Government think like they are from a Communist Country.............

Where do You buy Ethanol free nowadays?

If you buy super, ultramar and esso don't have ethanol.

[SongDog]

I know an 80+ year old farmer that told me on the weekend that he's been eating cattle corn the last month. LOL

I thought he was joking and he asked what was so funny....then says if it's good enough for the cows and coons then I'll eat it too. Hard to believe he can eat it on the cob because he's likely only got 6 teeth in his head.

Tough ol' bugger, Makes me laugh. Thought I'd share lol


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[longpointer]

Looks like the usual amounts of Soy bean to corn ratio here in Norfolk County.
I use farm grade Round Up around the property and always wear rubber gloves, boots and a respirator with the purple cartridges when spraying. Try to spray on calm days or at least stay upwind of it. I'm told that it decomposes within 48 hours after spraying ? Must be applied to the leaf of the plant so that it gets absorbed into it in order to kill it and that it is actually a growth stimulant but to the 10th power ? Basically the plant burns itself out or so I am told. I've had Poison Ivy before but until retiring to the farm never encountered Poison Oak. That stuff is nasty ! Painful blisters that takes weeks to heal.