I walk my dog along the edge of a wheat field. About a week ago, and even though the wheat is about ready to harvest I saw the farmer spraying the field.We quickly vacated the field edge.
It appears it was weedkiller as the weeds are now dying in the field and even the wheat leaves have turned yellow. I used to work in amenity horticulture and did some tractor mounted spraying myself. As far as i know this could only have been a glyphosate based or worse still an aminopyralid based weedkiller.
Its rather worrying that the wheat will soon be harvested and as long as an appropriate time has been left before harvesting the farmer is quite within his rights to do this?
Sorry if this may seem alarmist but I will in future be sourcing organically grown flour or bread because of this.
PS I don't really understand why this was needed and wonder how organic farmers achieve the same result?
It appears it was weedkiller as the weeds are now dying in the field and even the wheat leaves have turned yellow. I used to work in amenity horticulture and did some tractor mounted spraying myself. As far as i know this could only have been a glyphosate based or worse still an aminopyralid based weedkiller.
Its rather worrying that the wheat will soon be harvested and as long as an appropriate time has been left before harvesting the farmer is quite within his rights to do this?
Sorry if this may seem alarmist but I will in future be sourcing organically grown flour or bread because of this.
PS I don't really understand why this was needed and wonder how organic farmers achieve the same result?
"The problem with retirement is that you never get a day off"- Abe Lemons
![[-]](https://gardenandgossip.org/images/zen/collapse.png)