{"id":258,"date":"2011-06-26T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/weeds-winning-against-glysophate.html"},"modified":"2011-06-26T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T23:40:08","slug":"weeds-winning-against-glysophate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/weeds-winning-against-glysophate.html","title":{"rendered":"Weeds winning against Glysophate"},"content":{"rendered":"Chuck Darwin was right!\nGlysophate is losing to mutant weeds.\n

\nGus Lubin wrote in Business Insider 9 June 2011,\n\nDramatic Proliferation Of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds Threatens U.S. Crops<\/a>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nResearchers at Iowa State University warn that herbicide-resistant weeds\nare proliferating and may jeopardize U.S. food supply.\n

\nIn an article published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry,\nweed scientist Michael Owen said the proliferation of superweed “has\nbeen fairly dramatic in the last two to three years.”\n

\nWeeds are developing resistance to glyphosate, the active ingredient in\nRoundup, which has been used extensively since 1996.\n

\nU.S. soybean, cotton and corn production could suffer from further\nproliferation, according to\n\nScience News:<\/a>\n

\n“Today, 98 percent of U.S. soybeans, 88 percent or so of U.S. cotton\nand more than 70 percent of U.S. corn come from cultivars resistant\nto glyphosate,” Owen reports. Reliance on these crops \u2014 and an\naccompanying weed-control strategy that employs glyphosate to the\nexclusion of other herbicides \u2014 “created the ‘perfect storm’ for\nweeds to evolve resistance,” Owen and Jerry Green of Pioneer Hi-Bred\nInternational in Newark, Del., argue in their new analysis.\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\nOh, you mean like this\n\npigweed-infested cotton from last year?<\/a>\nThe Palmer amaranth is already just as bad this year.\n

\nIt’s not like this is news.\nWe’ve been going on about it\n\n\n\nfor more than a year,<\/a>\nit’s been\n\nfeatured on Georgia Farm Monitor with Dr. Stanley Culpepper<\/a>,\nwho has\n\npublished a study of the origin and spread of this mutant weed problem<\/a>,\nalong with a radical proposed solution:\n\nplow the weeds under<\/a>\nand plant winter cover crops,<\/a>\nand then\nuse a cultivator once the new crop comes up.<\/a>\n

\nWe do these things on our land, and we have almost no pigweed.\nAlso clean food that’s good to eat.\n

\nIt doesn’t help poor Monsanto, though, which\n\nwent from Forbes Company of the Year last year to “the worst stock of 2010”.<\/a>\nSo sad!\n

\n\nScience News<\/a> quoted lead author Micheal Owen as saying:\n

\n“It’s what Chuck Darwin talked about back in 1850. Organisms evolve\nin response to selection pressures in their environment. In essence,\nthe better we get at controlling weeds, the more likely those efforts\nwill select for survivors that do not respond to controls.”\n<\/blockquote>\nThe weeds have a harder time evolving to resist cold steel.\n

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