6 steps to halt herbicide-resistant weeds
Photo credit: Gil Gullickson Two years ago, Bruce Stripling sat in FMC’s booth at the Commodity Classic trade show, viewing companies pitching the latest agricultural technology. “All this technology, and here we are, still pulling pigweeds,” says the regional technical service manager for FMC. Stripling hails from Georgia, where Palmer amaranth started to devastate soybean and cotton fields in the mid-2000s. At that time, glyphosate-tolerant Roundup Ready technology still worked well in the Midwest. Before Roundup Ready, Georgia farmers managed weeds in cotton and soybe...
Source: agriculture.com