It's not a page one story, but yesterday, Germany announced that they were going ban glyphosate by 2023. The weed-killer has a number of discoveries in the past two years that link it to cancer.
So what happens to farmers after 2023? No one is really sure.
Some journalists were hyping up the commentary from the German ministry for agriculture that research money was going to pour in for German companies and universities to work together.....to find a safe weed killer.
Odds of accomplishing this in a time sequence and meet a production cycle by 2023? I would normally go out and say it's near impossible, unless you had something in your pocket already and half-developed.
But the problem here.....if glyphosate was a cancer threat....the science will be difficult to find a new 'agent' that is avoiding the cancer issue. My humble guess is that whatever comes up by 2022.....will be deemed a threat as well, and we might see Germany getting to 2025 to 2028, with no real replacement for glyphosate.
A threat for farming? It's best not to bring this up.
2 comments:
Turn off the Glphosate usage in Germany. Turn the grain fields over to hay production and increase meat production.
Reducing grain consumption by humans will have a beneficial effect on the health of Germans.
Bufcat: Increase meat production? Oh man, that would disturb the Green goal of flipping everyone into some vegan lifestyle. Although I like this idea of the hay production.
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