What goes around comes around?

[onfire]

Read a story about cotton fields being infected with a new breed of weed, the stalk so thick that it will stop a combine in its tracks.Some think we will have to start to pick it by hand again, could this be the answer to putting people back to work?

 

[truckinbutch]

To propose an idea like that leads me to believe that you never picked cotton . No offense toward you
intended . It is just such a brutally hard endeavor that the liberal tit suckled general populace we have today will have to get very desparately hungry before they will do that kind of labor . They will probably take to stealing first .

 

[pygmy]

This Pigweed can grow up to 15ft. with a stalk as thick as a baseball bat.

http://cotton247.com/globalperspectives/usa/?storyid=680

American scientists are using their experience with swine flu to find a solution to this
infestation.

 

[truckinbutch]

This Pigweed can grow up to 15ft. with a stalk as thick as a baseball bat.

http://cotton247.com/globalperspectives/usa/?storyid=680

American scientists are using their experience with swine flu to find a solution to this
infestation.

That being said , we all better brush up on our manual cotton picking techniques

 

[pygmy]

To propose an idea like that leads me to believe that you never picked cotton . No offense toward you
intended . It is just such a brutally hard endeavor that the liberal tit suckled general populace we have today will have to get very desparately hungry before they will do that kind of labor . They will probably take to stealing first .

MikeofAustin brought up the subject of transients recently. There's a whole army of itinerant transient farm labourers willing to take up the slack in farm work.
In the article I quoted , one farmer hired 40 workers with hoes for weeding.
As long as the border is porous there will never be a shortage of workers to feed , clothe and
clean up after the American citizen(general populace).

 

[GPURS]

I think we tried the "hand picking" of the cotton thing one time before and it didn't work out very well. Were still paying for that one.... Gpurs...

 

[Tank69]

To propose an idea like that leads me to believe that you never picked cotton . No offense toward you
intended . It is just such a brutally hard endeavor that the liberal tit suckled general populace we have today will have to get very desparately hungry before they will do that kind of labor . They will probably take to stealing first .

cant you just see it now` kid out there in welding gloves crying after 5 minutes how hard things are .....better yet get em out tasslin corn lol

 

[stefen]

Tried pickin cotton once...got a headack gettin that crud outa da assburn bottle...

 

[Seamuss]

There are fewer people living in the farm belt ways of America. I don't see city folk training their youngsters to getting back to that type of manual labor.

I know that statement is getting away from the weed infestation which is the topic. This plant might be a genetic mutant from all the herbicides used and maybe even imported from another area.