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Fox Farm and Monsanto.

Mr.furley do you remember when pineapples, bananas and watermelons had seeds? As kids we would save seeds and sprout them in the spring. Now everything is seedless or they produce sterile unviable seeds.

Shame what has happened to bananas and pineapple too.

I fear that they're going to be successful doing the same thing to cannabis.
 
C-Kid, Scott's holding is sure trying to buy up everything they can for the marijuana Revolution, the list goes on and on.
And I do remember watermelon seeds we would plant them as a kids in the backyard.
Modern conveniences, but hey at least people don't have dandelions.

"weed
wēd/Submit
noun
1.
a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.
verb
1.
remove unwanted plants from (an area of ground or the plants cultivated in it)."

To me manicured lawn is a weed.
 
Poison is poison. I live out in the middle of nowhere til recently. Now well financed city people are moving into the area. They put poison out to kill the packrats and mice that get into everything. The kill every snake they see and the snakes eat mice. As the vermin die slowly they are prey for hawks, owls, snakes, eagles, roadrunners, coyotes, and many other predators that see a struggling animal and eat it. They die and are eaten by vultures and they die. It kills the entire cycle of life. I have seen it. People who use poison like this, hell is too nice a place for them. People who make this stuff I hope are surely headed to the lowest level of D'antes inferno.
 
I live in farm country, corn, cotton, and yes soybeans. I've noticed that one farm that grew cotton the past two years has a sign up at the edge of their soybean crop that says AgriGold Soybeans. They had to have made a deal with someone. Where I live industrial hemp is legal, screw soybeans, I'd be growing hemp like a madwoman! I avoid soy every chance I get. Had a woman try to tell me that so much can be done with soybeans, hemp couldn't compete, I just sent her a link about the 50,000 things that can be done with hemp. She didn't say anything else.
 
Yes I let nature take its course. It usually works very well. If you take care of your wildlife, including bugs, spiders, and things like redwasps you will be far better off than using poisons.
 
Pesticides are a reasonable solution when faced with human comforts: without them we would all suffer, as well as our children.
A wholesome approach is needed, with us saying, "it's okay to have some bedbugs when we rent hotel rooms", and "we like having worms in our apples." I mean, that's what we all want, right?
Being sarcastic: we are the reason for pesticide use....
 
Don't even get me started on how these SOB's are also killing off the bee population. We can have a whole other discussion on how bees are an important part of our lives. Obviously these planet killers don't give a rats ass. They just want to dominate all agriculture and produce their own seeds as well.
 
bluecanoe I'm laughing here just reading on what that woman was trying to pitch to you about soy lol. I try to stay away from anything soy as well. I'm not buying into that hype. Glad to see you put her in her place with the true facts.
 
I cater to the pollinators. I plant flowers and trees that attract them. We sowed the majority of our yard in crimson clover for the bees. I saw a post on facebook that was so cool, you could have a honeycomb shaped beehive in your living room! And you could add to it. They get in through a tube and do their thing and you get to watch. I want one! I'm always preaching about the bees.
 
I was thrilled last year to find a honeybee nest, all natural, in a tree by my place. It's dry all summer here so I keep water out in birdbaths and bowls for the birds and mammals and then realized that those honeybees and several other species of bees are using them, too. The biggest attraction of all on my property is the mud puddle that I keep full with a dripping water hose all summer in my driveway... they swarm that muddy spot all day long! So do the butterflies. Mud puddles are one of nature's secret hotspots.
 
I would argue that pesticides are not a necessary evil and that they are destroying bee populations, as noted above by others, among other things. If we lose bees, we're going to be in big trouble re: pollination. It's common sense that humans should limit their exposure to poisons.

I go by Environmental Working Group's "stay away" list (the Dirty Dozen) of the most toxic fruits and vegetables, and I stick with organic for them: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/dirty-dozen.php
EWG also has a "Clean Fifteen" list which shows the safest produce to eat non-organic.
 
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I watched a documentary about Bananas and it said they were all from clones that maybe one in a million would be carrying seed ,there is a virus thats killing off all the trees so they are trying to come up with a solution other than changing the banana
 
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