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Re: Roundup Effects
John Foust wrote:
> In preparing my 26 acres for prairie seeding this summer, I bit the
> bullet and had them spray Roundup. Sure enough, it all died and
> turned brown, but what surprised me was the rapidity at which the
> grasses (foxtail and quack, I think) and pigweed re-established
> themselves, presumably from seed in the ground. Six weeks later,
> the weeds were as tall as the tractor.
Consider if you could fence it and put sheep on it for a year
with bales of native hay. Have the sheep eat it down to
nothing and keep eating it down to nothing. Pull them off
just as you go to plant.
-Austin
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