But is Canadian wheat as impeccable as we like to believe? Kevin Auch, who grows durum wheat in rotation with bread wheat, flax, peas and other crops on his 5,000-acre farm, told me he does indeed use glyphosate. Auch said he only uses glyphosate in the spring, to prep fields and clear them of weeds before sowing. Lanier is a durum wheat farmer, as his father was before him. “If it was so dangerous, my 92-year-old father wouldn’t be there riding his horse in my fields,” Lanier said when conversation turned to glyphosate use by Canadian farmers.

Source: thestar November 26, 2022 13:35 UTC