Stan, thanks for the good explanation. I have some experience with Roundup and lawn grass. After spraying my 200 yard driveway gravel with Roundup, when putting things away , I walked across the yard to turn off the water hydrant. Six or so days later one could see my tracks in the grass. Dead grass footprints that stayed all summer.
When I was a kid on the farm in Iowa, it looked to me that the oats in the grainery were about 1/3 grasshoppers . We had few pheasants , then, and some thought that because every small farm had livestock, especially hogs, and that everything was eaten up to the fences making it tough on the pheasants and occasional quail. That continued into the 60s when the Soil Bank came in , feedlots came in, and we had pheasants in swarms. Nowadays, actually since approximately the 90s, the pheasants are almost gone, relatively speaking. This is even with the various diverted acres programs.
