I had an uncle who loved spraying his 150 acres of
Bermuda grass with picloram on a three year cycle, 50
acres a year. He spilled Agent White (Picloram) once
on his fore arm back when I was a young-un. While it
made him only slightly sick with flue like symptoms
for a few days. The skin he spilled it on, about the
size of a large hand, lost all pagination & stayed
that way the rest of his life. Didn?t slow him down or
get him to stop using Agent White. He died from cancer
(go figure) around 20 years ago. His wife has
Alzheimer?s and sits in a home for Alzheimer?s
patients waiting for her husband to come take her
home. Coincidence, maybe although I don?t believe it,
this same story has repeated it self thousands of
times to farmers & their families over the past 40
years.
Picloram is the active ingredient is several
herbicides. Here are just a few of them: Pathway is
2,4-D + Picloram, Tordon 101 is 2,4-D + Picloram,
Tordon is just Picloram
While 2,4-D might be shorter lived, it is not less
toxic.
Several years ago a member of the ?Organic Garden Club
of Fort Worth? lost everything in his whole yard
except his grass due to picloram. A lab confirmed it
after almost a $1,000 worth of testing. He had used
well-composted FREE cow manure from a farmer that he
knew didn?t use any chemicals on his farm. The problem
was that two years before, during a drought, the
farmer had to purchase a dozen huge round bales of hay
to get past that winter. That was all it took.
You can spray Bermuda grass with picloram at labeled
rates. Let a nursing cow eat the hay. Collect the
manure from the calf. Hot compost the calf?s manure,
store it for three years.
AND STILL KILL EVERY BROADLEAFED PLANT IT TOUCHES.
That?s nasty!
John Bridges
