Farmer cuts herbicide bill by adding soybean oil to his weed killers.

From: News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, IL) | Date: June 12, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Christine Des Garennes

Jun. 12--At first, Gene Hood was skeptical.

A friend and fellow farmer in Indiana was adding soybean oil to his herbicides. By doing so, he was able to cut back on the amount of weed killers he sprayed on his fields.

After hearing about what his friend was doing, Hood, who farms north of Gifford, didn't exactly run to the farm supply store to load up on soybean oil.

Then one year in the early 1990s he had to respray herbicide on 780 acres. And he learned the chemical company that supplied him with the herbicide would no longer ...

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