So if you can’t beat them, beat yourself.

[FarmRanger]

Its safe to drink urine, but I wouldn't do that either.

[greybeard]

Glyphosate is one of the only loads of liquid you can haul without a placard on the trailer.

[pgluca]

Regarding Glyphosate notice how it isn't toxic however there is a whole lot of surfactant in there that they won't tell you much about and won't give you the LD50 on. Anything I have read about surfactants, even in paint they are one of the most problematic components. As an aside I have always wondered how years of dumping surfactants in our fields affects nutrient uptake, especially micronutrients and heavy metals. It could be beneficial or very harmful???

[blackpowder]

Seems theres more heretics than true believers on this site anyway. Sliver of hope?

[Jay-mo]

Good article Pgluca, a lot of that article makes sense to me.
High concentrations of co2 are only beneficial for plant life. The earth is designed to be amazingly resilient.
I have no dispute that man made pollution on a localized scale is a very real problem in many areas. However, a lot of these types of pollution can realistically be reduced or eliminated.
Yet we still have modern cities in our own country pumping raw, untreated sewage directly into rivers, lakes and oceans.

[Oliver88]

Thanks for posting the Patrick Moore speech pgluca.
It really makes you think about what the desire is for a carbon/climate tax and what their end goal is.

It appears the Alberta NDP is implementing a carbon tax.

[sumdumguy]

They should be rewarding us for producing carbon, the backbone of green life.

[TOM4CWB]

Very few newer big HDclass trucks to find made before 2008... and newer than that isn't worth buying as tech is expensive and not reliable to keep it running... looks like over twice the cost of pre2008 engines to maintain. We have Tier 3 advanced... no Urea in our Farm equip engines... they are very clean running no need to upgrade for many years to come now.

For New equip... $150/hr to hook up computers and work through software glitches... Chinese Service advisor software systems getting much better for pre2008 engines... if tech guys/mechanics are on top of working through the software.

We have painted ourselves into a software corner... computers everywhere... need young and old alike to keep this equip running... that are brighter than I.

Its all real nice when it works! Good and happy people are the key now. Human Resourses will be the No1 issue ahead... innovation to keep folks happy and working environment destressed as Gov wants fingers in everything. AS oil/coal shuts down... afraid they [gov] will have much spare time to spend on AG. We will need to double Admin time spent.

[blackpowder]

Just think of how many new union jobs are being created.