Been long known, u can kill people, but not an idea.
You can wipe out a race, but not their trace.
And there are unintended consequences for every action, both ways.
Somebody said 1400 years of this, but, it's been longer than that.
In the mention of wheat and tares, the farmer can separate them and burn the tares, but they come back. The tares were created when the rock was formed, fact of life. Good farmer controls the tares in his crop.
Seems some people have forgotten to be good stewards of the rock, to keep the crops clean, and the weeds under control. Takes a lot of work.
Other weed seeds in a crop, sand spurs, seed is cracked open in fire, makes them spread faster. Other weed seeds lay dormant in the soil 7 years, some longer. Some sprout only when they surface in nature. It's up to the farmer to manage them.
The wheat makes the bread that feeds the farmer. It's in the farmers best interest to grow clean wheat.
The book of life is full of examples of poor farming practices, the farmers almanac offers advice.
Non farmers should not be in charge of the farm..... lots of people go hungry when the farm fails. BC-AD, nothing has changed in recorded history.
Sucks when weeds choke out the wheat, everybody will go hungry. Until the farm minded return to the farm ways for their own good, and clean the wheat, everyone who walks past the weeds in the wheat field and does nothing, may soon go hungry.
Farming is hard. Lots of outside influences can influence it, but hard working farmers can control weeds.
All farmers can have bad years and if prudent, historically recover.
Support your farmers.