That about sums it up.

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7. combine harvested

but before the combines come into the field, the milk weed must be removed. I'm sure there are pesticides that can do it, but they leave residue on soybeans. Toxic residue.

So. what small soy bean farmers do is pay people to walk every row, just before combine time, and cut the milk weed down, usually with a hand machete. Do it about a week before the combine rolls through and your beans are not covered in roundup nor are they flavored by the milk weed being crushed by the combine.

I used to do this work as a high school student. Paid shit. Very hard work.

This year the soybeans are rotting in the field... almost NO shipments to China... and the storage facilities are filling up.