Could robot weedkillers replace the need for pesticides?
Weeds are other – not the farming target – plants growing in the same field. Pests are things that eat the farming target. Killing weeds is not the same as killing pests therefore.
Could robot weedkillers replace the need for pesticides?
Weeds are other – not the farming target – plants growing in the same field. Pests are things that eat the farming target. Killing weeds is not the same as killing pests therefore.
Is it fair to expect guardian contributors to know that herbicides and fungicides and pesticides are not simply different words for the same product.
A glance at the article reveals that length and width are also concepts that can easily be confused.
Best not to get into a car driven by Carey Gillam, investigative journalist!
Luckily they only want to micromanage every aspect of society so we don’t have to worry they don’t know anything about energy, power, food, metabolism, psychology, agriculture, chemistry, economics, incentives, business, the null hypothesis, dose/response curves or anything else that isn’t important.
They do know about pronouns and feelings. That’s enough isn’t it?
Pesticide is the umbrella term for herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, nematicides etc.
And the ‘link’ of glyphosate to cancer is so much environmental bollocks – glyphosate was made by Monsanto and Monsanto was the Green movements Voldemort or Darth Vader.