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Field of dreams: heartbreak and heroics at the World Ploughing Championships
- rhema 8y ago>But to the conservationists, spraying glyphosate is a minor interference compared with the aggressive upheaval caused by ploughing. This is a pretty huge claim without any cited evidence. Farmers I've talked to are very concerned with glyphosate and the chemical as been banned in France https://www.euronews.com/2018/05/29/france-committed-to-glyphosate-herbicide-ban-despite-parliamentary-rebuff https://www.euronews.com/2018/05/29/france-committed-to-glyp... . God save us if the bees all die.
- philipodonnell 8y ago> Most ploughmen can’t imagine not ploughing. Why would they stop doing something they had always done? ... As a ploughman once said to me: “The plough’s been here for far too long for it not to be right.” If the no-till movement is correct in its claims, they might be wrong about that.