Post by silverseeds on May 24, 2010 16:17:28 GMT -5
www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/timeline/grasshoppers_l_brunner.htm
there are likely better links on this. the article is about a device called a hopper dozer. Which you pull over the rows, the grass hoppers jump, and then land in the tray, and are killed. In the trial mentioned in this short article 2,400 bushels of grasshoppers were caught, while preserving the field. That sounds like a marketable resource to me. Im sure it would make a nice organic chicken feed.
thought I would bring this up. Perhaps someone who has grasshopper issues, can make a version for themselves, and a bit more money to.....
there are likely better links on this. the article is about a device called a hopper dozer. Which you pull over the rows, the grass hoppers jump, and then land in the tray, and are killed. In the trial mentioned in this short article 2,400 bushels of grasshoppers were caught, while preserving the field. That sounds like a marketable resource to me. Im sure it would make a nice organic chicken feed.
thought I would bring this up. Perhaps someone who has grasshopper issues, can make a version for themselves, and a bit more money to.....