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Emeritus professor from Purdue University and former U.S. army bioweapons expert points to growing evidence of potential harm from genetic engineering and herbicide “abuse”
Don Huber may not be a big fan of organic agriculture, but he’s become a hero among organic farmers with his contention that glyphosate is less benign than its promoters crack it up to be. Huber an emeritus professor of Plant Pathology from Purdue University, isn’t backing down, even though some dismiss him as aDavid Neufeld learned the hard way how persistent this herbicide is and now wonders how surface and groundwater are affected
A Boissevain farmer is questioning the safety of a herbicide commonly sprayed on ditch weeds after discovering it makes the compost he uses in his organic greenhouse toxic to bedding plants. David Neufeld got a nasty surprise when his greenhouse tomatoes suddenly died in 2010. A Winnipeg laboratory found the composted horse manure he wasFarmers soil testing in the wake of floods have found the silt left behind contained surprisingly high levels of nutrients, including phosphorus and potassium
It appears there’s one upside from flooding — silt. After the deluge from the Souris River dried up, staff at the Westman Agricultural Diversification Organization (WADO) wanted to know what effect the flood had on research plots that were completely under water last summer. Soil tests of what appeared to be dark-coloured sand near the
