Hemlock

We've been driving past a Wheatfield that was full of big Hemlock plants, wondering when they were going to weed them out.

Went past yesterday and the whole field had been harvested

Can a combine weed out the Hemlock as it cuts or do we have to avoid bread for the next 6 months?

 

They certainly wouldn't have had time to weed it all out, it was about 6 acres and it was all there the night before

 

Dont we only eat the grain, I'm not keen on the leafy bits myself, wheat or otherwise.

I'm guessing that at some point they separate the wheat from the chaff.

 

Hi Zig

What a stupid thing to do .

I agree with Pete it would of separated with the chaff but if it had set seed that would be mixed with the wheat ,they were just being lazy and if bailing the straw up afterwards if used for bedding may cause a problem later on if eaten by the animals.

Spruce

 

Some people feed straw to horses.

 

Hi

Dont normally disagree on here, they may nibble on it, but its not encouraged due to straw may cause colic, so I doubt it would be fed as hay would be, and sawdust would be used as a alternative bedding if they did start eating in quantities.
Spruce

 

Looked in the book, every part of the plant is poisonous.

We need @Jiffy 's input on this one

 

might be useful

 

I knew somebody who fed it to her horses, I think it was mixed with some hay in their nets.

 

Yes you do

 

A combine could sieve it out but not all if the Hemlock is ripe, but,you will have to have a good person on the combine that knows what it is but you will lose some corn out the back of the combine. If it's not ripe then you may have some bits come through, but most will end up in the straw (so don't eat the straw) yes farmers will get paid less if the sample has more than 2% admix ,Was the wheat for bread/biscuit or for animal feed, yes there are lots of greedy and lazy and can't be bothered farmers and yes there are some very good farmers that want to do the best they can do, if the farmer has cut it and got all the grain he can get (and is a good farmer) he may clean the grain back at the farm (If he has the cleaners) he may not clean the grain and hope no one see it and get paid full for he's grain, or take the claim for the above 2% admix,or take the grain to some one else to clean(cleaning grain can cost lots of money)If the grain goes for bread/biscuit and they find it it could get rejected or deduced price or go for cleaning or animal feed, Millers will clean all grain before it's milled so the change of things going through are less,
If the grain goes for animal feed then it may just get milled and in the feed, but will it go for cattle feed or for chicken feed or pig feedand this could be for pet aninmals as well
The straw can be used as feed or bedding for cattle,so that's going to cause problems
I've covered a part of this as we don't know what the farmer is going to do with the grain, he could also be feeding it to he's own cattle or crimp it and sell it for cattle feed him self (if he's can't be bother with the grain and you could be buying it for you own animal without knowing it)
Hemlock is not the only poisonous plant growing wild in fields/hedges etc

But if people don't know there weed seeds when the grain is tested what will happern to the grain?
We have to trust these people to do things right and buy the law as we could be eating it,
We have to trust the grain industy and people to do things right and hope no one bends the rules
O yes we do eat cattle and drink there milk, but are we seeing lots of people dying?

Now that would cost alot of money do to by hand and by machine
Also not all farmers/people know there weeds/poisnous weeds


That must be my longest post ever, my finger sore