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"Franz Heymann" writes:
| "marie" wrote in message
| ...
|
| I now know the weedkiller is called Touche.
| It's 2 main ingredients are GLYPHOSATE and DIURON.
| The council man said it was a contact herbicide, yet the rep of the
| maker said it was contact as well as systemic herbicide.
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| Your council man does not know his brass from his oboe.
| There is plenty of reading matter on the web which makes it quite
| plain that glyphosate is a translocating herbicide.

However, (to a first approximation) glyphosate is not absorbed by
roots and does not transfer through soil. Diuron does both.

They were bullshitting, to try to avoid responsibility.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.