Based on the headlines, you might expect the experiment to have been fairly simple. Get some worms. Spray the worms with Roundup. Observe seizures. You would be wrong.
In April of 2021, the president of Sri Lanka banned the import of fertilizers and pesticides and told the southwest Asia country’s 2 million farmers they were immediately moving to total organic production.
Source: Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
Rotating to soybean in the following year may help reduce the tar spot inoculum in that field. Another consideration is to plant a tar spot tolerant hybrid in that field and surrounding fields.
According to a draft ecological assessment on the EPA’s website, the agency has recorded 3,500 new incidents of off-target dicamba incidents in the 2021 growing season alone.
Weeds in a field destined for alfalfa planting survived both Enlist and Roundup applications. So the farmer hired a moldboard plow to tackle the issue. What would you have done? Is this avoidable?
A scientist and researcher, Richard Brain has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. He is presenting at the National No-Tillage Conference alongside Dr. Daniel Perkins of Ag Insight on spray drift.
Glyphosate has been under fire due to thousands of non-ag lawsuits being filed against Bayer, who inherited many of these concerns when they purchased Monsanto in 2018. In addition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently taken steps to crack down on the use of atrazine.
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