{"id":8770,"date":"2021-06-08T11:16:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=8770"},"modified":"2021-06-08T11:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T15:16:40","slug":"pigweed-2021-06-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/pigweed-2021-06-08.html","title":{"rendered":"Pigweed 2021-06-08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nPulled this out of the corn this morning.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Palmer amaranth\" name=\"PA:Palmer-amaranth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2021-06-08--pigweed\/20210608_102352.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2021-06-08--pigweed\/20210608_102352.jpg\"  alt=\"[Palmer amaranth]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2021-06-08--pigweed\/#PA:Palmer-amaranth\">Palmer amaranth<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nWe have very little of it.\r\nNearby, where renters grow cotton doused in Roundup (Glysophate),\r\nthey have a lot of it.\r\nBecause it has mutated to be resistant to Roundup.\r\nSo over there, it&#8217;s the only weed growing.\r\nThey&#8217;ve resorted to everything from 2,$-D to Paraquat to pulling it up by hand.\r\n<p>\r\nIn our fields, pigweed has to compete with everything else,\r\nand it is not very successful.\r\nWe have more issues with dog fennel and sandspurs.\r\nNothing a little hoe work and weed pulling can&#8217;t fix.\r\nGood morning exercise.\r\nWe do not use any pesticides.\r\n<p>\r\nSee also\r\nAndre Gallant, Modern Farmer, 18 July 2013,\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2013\/07\/superweeds-2\/\">\r\nPigweed in the Cotton: A &lsquo;Superweed&rsquo; Invades Georgia<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pulled this out of the corn this morning. Palmer amaranth We have very little of it. Nearby, where renters grow cotton doused in Roundup (Glysophate), they have a lot of it. Because it has mutated to be resistant to Roundup. So over there, it&#8217;s the only weed growing. They&#8217;ve resorted to everything from 2,$-D to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88,6],"tags":[93,3,23,5,2,2760,801,376],"class_list":["post-8770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn","category-okra-paradise-farms","tag-corn-2","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-palmer-amaranth","tag-pigweed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-2hs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8771,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions\/8771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}