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  • From: Bunjov AT aol.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] World's Worst Weeds
  • Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:14:44 EDT

This appeared a few days ago in the Delta Free Press...I've been trying to
send it with the accompanying hyperlink, but it keeps getting bounced (?).
So...here it is - linkless. Sorry.

Sandy
Mid-Mojave

One of world's worst weeds is now herbicide-resistant

Johnsongrass, one of the world’s most troublesome weeds, has become
resistant to the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) at sites in Arkansas and
Mississippi.
Johnsongrass is the latest in a string of resistant weeds that calls into
question the widespread use of genetically engineered (GE)
herbicide-tolerant
crops. This year, U.S. farmers will apply Roundup, produced by Monsanto, to
more than 100 million acres of soybeans, corn, and cotton engineered to
tolerate the herbicide. These and other GE crops were sold with the promise
of
decreased pesticide use, but the overuse of any one herbicide almost
inevitably
leads to resistant weeds like the newly discovered johnsongrass.




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