[Market-farming] Glyphosate Resistance in Weeds

Tom & Mel at Limerock limerock at thirdplanet.net
Wed Mar 3 14:15:00 EST 2010


I have firsthand experience with someone's volitization onto our tomatoes 
and grapes, but, it was the 'ester' formulation.  I thought (and could 
easily be wrong) that the 'amine' did not have the volitization problem.

Tom


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William H Shoemaker" <wshoemak at illinois.edu>
To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Fw: Glyphosate Resistance in Weeds


> So now, DOW Chemical is coming out with 2,4-D resistant crops, meaning 
> that
> herbicide will be used more often. It is really bad for drift, sometimes
> moving more than a mile from targeted crops as a volatile gas. If it 
> drifts
> into your tomatoes or your tunnel, you'll have problems.
>
> Bill
>
>
> 




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