Glyphosate approval

Groundsmen can still get Pistol which contains diflufenican for pre-emergence

 

No , I remember sodium chlorate being banned. Didn't rate it much anyway, it's only real advantage being that it was cheap. The big plus with Pathclear was that usually, only one application was needed to see you through the growing season.

 

Ah..thanks @CarolineL! Knowing the active ingredient is half the battle won!

 

Glufosinate ammonium is a contact herbicide with no systemic action
Ammonium sulphamate was a very effective weedkiller with a systemic action. I used it to remove a thicket of lilac suckers. The main problem was you had to use a fairly high concentration (200g/L), but it was fairly safe to use, fairly slow acting if I remember correctly and broke down over a number of weeks.

 

Simazine! That was the name...it all comes back (eventually)

 

Brighton and Hove council have just been given the go ahead to start using glyphosate again, after phasing it out in 2019.
This time though, they're using the droplet method rather than the willy nilly spraying of yesteryear. It's still upset the bunny hugger party down here...but something had to be done as the roads, especially in the suburbs, were starting to look like a scene from a dystopian future film!
At the present time, there is no real alternative that is financially viable that works and that will appease the anti everythingers.

 

The sad thing is that politicians don't realise what a waste of time it is using glypho on annual weeds. It's the same over here. One annual treatment of a pre-emergent weedkiller + glyphosate was far more effective on hard surfaces.

 

I was under the impression that glyphosate had been given approval both by the EU and the UK.

The approval of glyphosate in the EU was due to expire on the 15th December 2023 and the UK from the 15th December 2025.

As far as I know, the EU gave approval for glyphosate for another 10 years in November with Defra secretary of state, Thérèse Coffey, saying glyphosate was here to stay in an article by the NFU.

Brussels allows use of glyphosate across EU for 10 more years after member states fail to reach deal | Euronews

QANDA_23_5793_EN.pdf (europa.eu)

 

Brussels approved it for 10 years, but each member State can decide whether to approve it's use on their territory or not. One of the major factors in the recent farmers' protests was that France is very reluctant to re-approve it. It's crazy when the stuff is freely available over the border in Spain.

 

Synical old me just sees it as a cost cutting exercise and using the green thing as a way of explaining it all, just do less and save money.

@flounder you council tax is going to rocket next year.

 

Macron's government will just recourse to article 49.3 to ban the farmers from using glyphosate just like he used it to increase the pension age and tourist tax on accommodation.

 

I still think its safe if used for its intended purpose, spraying standing crops with it should be outlawed and let the rest of us use it for killing weeds.

 

Must admit they cut the verges around here more than 4 times a year but there is always a lull for a month or two because they seem to have to sort out new contracts.
Its only some areas of playing fields that get left on the housing estates but verges in the countryside, what's left of it, are allowed to grow.