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  1. SteveA
    Oh, looks like my prediction failed!
  2. SteveA
    Appears my prediction is pretty accurate so far.... wind & rain again.
  3. SteveA
    Rubbing my knees here!
  4. SteveA
    Really like that. Cheers, steve
  5. SteveA
    How did you carve it, if you don't mind me asking?
  6. SteveA
    Superb, just superb. Cheers, Steve
  7. SteveA
    Enjoyed that, and it didn't feel uncomfortable at all - at any point. I'd love to be able to work like that. Cheers, Steve
  8. SteveA
    Why does it need to be felled? Cheers, steve
  9. SteveA
    Got coastal and high ground flood warnings here at the moment (South West Wales). Have already started getting lots of wind and rain. Lost a tarp in our haystack and a lot of bales got swamped
  10. SteveA
    I did think of the levels when I mentioned the flooding Jon. Hopefully the dredging will make a difference? (Assuming they've actually done a lot of dredging). Cheers, steve
  11. SteveA
    I think it'll be similar to last year. Very wet, very windy and lots of flooding again. What do you think? Cheers, steve
  12. SteveA
    Ref: "it's pretty harmless" ....yes, according to the label.
  13. SteveA
    I'm not saying the buck stops with banning Roundup, but it's certainly high on the list. Also, it's more of a case of weening ourselves out of a massive problem rather than banning everything overnight all at once. The loss of habitat, etc is staggering and either we change attitudes & methods or.....
  14. SteveA
    Reading the comments on this thread it seems many have become married to a wolf in sheeps clothing. Fact is that chemical farming is destroying so much in the great outdoors and if we continue the way we are heading it's a seriously grim picture for our children. We've ready lost so much, and for what?.... to fund massive corporations like Monsanto. It's not too late.
  15. SteveA
    The 40 acres of just oil seed rape is the problem. Thousands of the same plant across a huge area isn't a good start.
  16. SteveA
    Is food too cheap? Yes. Is organic food too expensive? Yes. Is Roundup/ Monsanto,etc bad for environmental health (inc people)? Yes. Is having large fields of mono-crops going to be a problem for pest/weed management? Yes. Is there an alternative? Yes, always.
  17. SteveA
    See my earlier link. Roundup doesn't 'vanish'
  18. SteveA
    Your current farming system may dictate you would need to charge 3 times as much if you didn't use chemicals. Yes, I can believe that.
  19. SteveA
    You already are.... http://ecowatch.com/2014/02/27/monsantos-roundup-found-in-75-of-air-and-rain-samples/
  20. SteveA
    It's also quite possible to grow enough food and quite possibly more than enough food without Roundup. Just not with current monoculture farm systems.
  21. SteveA
    if not weird then certainly ironic.... ie, they want to protect the public from Roundup yet it's okay for farmers to spray crops with Roundup and have the public eat the stuff. Weird and ironic!
  22. SteveA
    Dutch have banned Roundup for sale to the general public, yet still allowed to be used by farmers on crops, (weird). See article here: Dutch Parliament Bans Monsanto’s RoundUp Effective in 2015 Roundup to be banned in UK, ?....
  23. SteveA
    I believe when it comes to pesticides, (monsanto, Syngenta, roundup, etc) guidelines are worthless, at least when applied to habitat. Cheers, Steve
  24. SteveA
    Errr, maybe try reading my first post Kev
  25. SteveA
    Yes, up to 4 months is fine.... just need to block the light for long enough so that it buys us time to sort out the layers of top mulch. As above, we need the weed barrier to block light (and then rot away).... very similar to using cardboard. It sounds like you are trying for total weed eradication (by chemical warfare) whereas we are quite happy to have a controllable amount of 'weed' for the critters to live on. Thus we don't have to resort to using any chemicals. It's no joke... it does work. Just ask the billions of critters that live on our farm!

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