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National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds
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This summit grew out of a 2010 National Research Council report on the impact of genetically engineered crops on U.S. farm sustainability. A variety of topics were addressed in the report, and one of the findings was that weeds resistant to glyphosate were an emerging problem. Since the time the report was published, glyphosate resistance in weeds has more than “emerged”—it is now a significant problem. Let me provide some background on this topic from my own personal perspective. When my dad was planting corn in the 1940s in western Minnesota, he used the Check Planting Method. You would have a quarter mile of heavy wire, which you would stake at either end of the field. A planter would go over it, and every time the planter hit a little button on this wire, the hopper would open and release a few seeds that would grow and make a hill of corn. It took my dad two days or more to plant a plot of land that today would take an hour and a half with a modern corn planter, but the end result for my dad was a beautiful corn field that looked similar to a checker board—all the rows were in perfect alignment. He followed this system because at the time there were no options for controlling weeds except cultivation. This planting method allowed him to cultivate both North-South and East-West from May through early July to optimally remove all weeds from the field. It was labor and time intensive. Along with my dad, I operated the tractor for many hours in many spring seasons, cultivating.
978-0-309-26556-0
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Social Science
English
2012
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