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Volunteer Corn Reduces Yield In Corn And Soybean Crops

Ohio’s Purdue University Extension Service reports that volunteer corn is causing major yield reductions to both corn and soybean crops. With 70 per cent of Indiana’s annual corn crop resistant to glyphosate, volunteer corn has become increasingly difficult to control. “We’re rotating Roundup Ready corn with our soybean crop, which is typically 95 per cent
Crops, Oilseeds

Non-GM Glyphosate-Tolerant Flax Being Developed

Glyphosate-tolerant flax that hasn’t been “genetically modified” (GM) could be on the market by 2014, according to James A. Radtke, vice-president of product development for Cibus, an American plant trait development company. If the $6-million project between Cibus, the Flax Council of Canada, and Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada is a success, Canadian flax growers
Crops, Forages

New Herbicide With Same Active Ingredient As Pursuit

Makhteshim Agan of North America, Inc. (MANA), has received registration of Phantom herbicide for control of tough weeds in field pea, dry bean, alfalfa and soybean. With the same active ingredient as Pursuit, Phantom provides pulse growers with widespread choice. Phantom works on tough-to- control weeds like chickweed, cleavers, green foxtail, hemp-nettle and smartweed. Phantom
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Global Warming Not So Bad — For Weeds

A study in the latest issue ofWeed Sciencesays that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere benefit at least one species – weeds. Carbon dioxide acts as a fertilizer to invasive exotic grasses, resulting in higher growth rates and larger leaves. These stronger plants are also proving more resistant to the world’s most important
Crops, Oilseeds

Plant Pathologist Cites “High Risk” Of Glyphosate

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Questions about the safety of glyphosate have resurfaced in a warning from a U.S. scientist that claims the top-selling herbicide may contribute to plant disease and health problems for farm animals. Plant pathologist and retired Purdue University professor, Don Huber has written a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warning that a newly discovered
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Weeds Shift To Meet New Farming Practices

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The widespread adoption of zero or minimum tillage has led to subtle changes in weed populations in Manitoba, according to the provincial weed specialist, Nasir Shaihk. In the 1970s, when tillage was widespread, the top three weeds were volunteer barley, dog mustard and field horsetail. An examination of weed survey results stretching back over the
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espite all of mankind’s ingenuity, the weeds, it seems, always win in the end. Monsanto once boasted Roundup-resistant weeds were “highly unlikely” to be found, but now strains of glyphosateresistant giant ragweed can be seen growing 18 feet tall in Ontario cornfields, and some biotypes of rigid ryegrass in Australia have become immune to virtually
News, Oilseeds

KAP Willing To Continue Paying For RR1 Soybeans

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Manitoba farmers have expressed willingness to continue paying Monsanto to grow Roundup Ready soybeans even after the patent on them expires. A resolution passed at the recent Keystone Agricultural Producers annual meeting in Winnipeg calls on KAP to “lobby Monsanto to allow Manitoba farmers to continue to grow Roundup Ready 1 soybeans under a user
Crops, Forages

Manitoba Growers Edgy About GM Alfalfa Release In U.S.

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Manitoba forage seed producers are dismayed, but not surprised that American regulators have released Roundup Ready alfalfa in the U.S. without restrictions. “Whoever thought that Roundup Ready wasn’t going to come to the market was living in a dream world,” said Adam Gregory, an alfalfa seed producer from Fisher Branch. The U.S. Department of Agriculture
News, Oilseeds, Pulses

RR Soybeans Off Patent But Still Restricted

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The one company committed to selling off-patent Roundup Ready 1 soybeans in 2012 says it will use contracts to ensure farmers don’t save and reuse the seed. But Pioneer Hi-Bred will continue to make the seed available for one-time use only once it comes off patent in August, 2011 at least until 2014, a company

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