Re: Is it really safer than Agent Orange?

"Lee" <lee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-842180934463681887
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I used to use "No Till" cultivation to grow feed corn without plowing
circa 
1970. After harvest, one disks the stalks into the soil for fertilizer. 
In 
late winter or very early spring one plants Rye grass. It grows knee-high 
quickly holding moisture in the soil and choking out weeds. As soon as the

soil is dry enough one sprays the grass with a non-persistent herbicide - 
Paraquat IIRC.  In a few days the grass dies and 'lodges up'.  Then you 
plant corn using a special drill (planter).  The dead grass keeps the sun 
from drying the soil until the corn can provide its own shade.  This
method 
provides the same yields per acre as conventional tillage in a good year
and 
a much better yield in dry years. The cost and any harm the herbicide
might 
do is more than offset by saving the 1000s of gallons of diesel oil 
otherwise burned to plow and harrow.  Everything's a trade off ....