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  • From: <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Fw: Glyphosate Resistance in Weeds
  • Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:54:02 -0800

For those of you who don't already know it, there is a comment period ending
today (6 PM, I think) regarding Roundup Ready (RR) alfalfa. The more
different kinds of RR crops there are out there, the more weed resistance
there will be. Below, I pasted an email I got recently, so that you can
comment, too, if you wish. Copy and paste the link below into your browser.
Although it is directed at organic farmers, the greater prevalence of RR
resistant weeds applies to all of us.

Dear Friend,
I just submitted my comments to the USDA telling them to protect the
integrity of organics by not approving the use of genetically modified (GMO)
alfalfa. The USDA has alarmingly and mistakenly announced that they do not
believe that consumers care whether or not GMOs are a part of our food supply
and our agricultural production. Approving GMO alfalfa would significantly
harm the integrity of and access to organic food, as well as the livelihoods
of organic farmers. We need to show them that we do indeed care!

Please take a moment to submit your comments to the USDA by following this
link from Food Democracy Now! Then please pass this on.

http://fdn.actionkit.com/cms/sign/make_a_stand_for_organics/

Every voice counts!
Thanks



Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522

--- wshoemak AT illinois.edu wrote:

From: "William H Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Fw: Glyphosate Resistance in Weeds
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:26:03 -0600

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


> ISIS Report 03/03/10
>
> Glyphosate Resistance in Weeds
> ########################
>
> The Transgenic Treadmill
>
> Glyphosate resistant weeds may spell the end of patented
> herbicide tolerant crops, but can farmers exit the
> transgenic treadmill that's very profitable for Monsanto?
> Prof. Joe Cummins
>
> An evolving problem
>
> Glyphosate herbicide was patented and sold by Monsanto
> corporation since 1974 under the trade name and proprietary
> formulation Roundup. The herbicide has been used widely in
> agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, alongside roads and
> highways, and in home gardening. Glyphosate is a broad-
> spectrum herbicide that poisons many plant species so it is
> frequently used to 'burn down' weeds on a field prior to the
> planting or emergence of crops.
>
> Before 1996, weeds were not observed to have evolved
> resistance to glyphosate in the field, but since then, the
> introduction of transgenic glyphosate tolerant crops has led
> to evolution of a number of resistant weeds as the result of
> the greatly increased use of the herbicide particularly
> during the post-emergent growth of the crops. Glyphosate
> reisistant Asiatic dayflower (Commelina cumminus L) common
> lambsquarters (Chenopodium album L) and wild buckwheat
> (Polygonum convolvulus L) are reported to be increasing in
> prominence in some agro ecosystems as are populations of
> horseweed (Conyza canadensis (L) Cronq) [1].
>
> In regions of the USA where transgenic glyphosate resistant
> crops dominate, there are now evolved glyphosate-resistant
> populations of the economically damaging weed species
> Ambrosia artemissifolia (rag weed), Ambrosia trifida
> L.(great ragweed), palmer pigweed (Amaranthus palmeri),
> common water hemp (Amaranthus rudis) , rough fruit amaranth
> (Amaranthus tuberculatus) and various Conyza (horse weed )
> and Lolium (rye grass) species.
>
> Likewise, in areas of transgenic glyphosate resistant crops
> in Argentina and Brazil, there are now evolved glyphosate
> resistant populations of Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense)
> and Mexican fireplant (Euphorbia heterophylla) [2]. These
> herbicide resistant weeds pose a clear threat to the
> transgenic crops dominating North and South America [3].
>
> Read the rest of this report here
> http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosateResistanceTransgenicTreadmil.php
>
> Or read other articles about GM agriculture
> http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GE-agriculture.php
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