Posted on 08/01/2011 1:45:40 PM PDT by opentalk
The proliferation of superweeds --weeds that have mutated to develop resistance to popular herbicides like Monsanto's Roundup formula --continues to rise. But the individual plants' overall size and strength is also increasing. According to a series of new studies published in the journal Weed Science, farmers are having more trouble than ever dealing with out-of-control superweeds in their fields, some of which grow up to three inches a day in size, and are so strong and thick that they are destroying farm equipment.
The studies reveal that there are currently at least 21 different weed species known to be resistant to Roundup, also known generically as glyphosate. These species include ragweed, pigweed, horseweed, waterhemp, and ryegrass. Since 2007, the total acreage of farmland known to be infested with superweeds has also jumped more than 450 percent, from 2.4 million acres to 11 million acres, which means that the problem is only going to get exponentially worse.
"Super-strains of plants like pigweed --which grows three inches a day and is tough enough to damage farm machinery --have emerged, which may dramatically reduce the options for farmers to control them,"
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more signs of judgment from God
I love you dude!
So many wild onions in my yard, my eyes water when I cut it, but they stop when it gets hot.
I don’t know enough abpout this story to judge it , but food is going to get a lot more expensive if they have to stop No till farming.
Mark
Because it is a blatantly agenda based site. Pure fringe agenda based. Nutburger time. I have never heard of this happening in any media until today. One may as well use DEBKA as their primary news source. Pure crap.
And lots of weeding, with hoes. Of course, that will work with the super-weeds, too.
And we have lots of unemployed and even seasonally employed who could now be put to work year-round (or all growing-season) to dig up and kill weeds.
I like it.
I have him/Natural News on my Facebook. He is on the conservative side of almost every topic that he posts about. He takes quite a lot of heat for it there.
BTW, the scientific name for pigweed is Amaranthus palmeri and it is both edible and highly nutritious. Pigs love it and hence the name.
Because of the concentration of nitrates, it can be mildly toxic to cattle and other undulates with multiple digestive chambers as the nitrates concentrate as it moves along the digestive tract. Ditto for those with kidney or other digestive problems.
If a cow eats too much pigweed, the best antidote is plenty of grass and water to dilute the nitrogen concentration. Avoid grain, alfalfa or other nitrogen rich hay.
If that doesn't do the trick, tobacco and a call to the vet generally will save the cow as long as you catch it early enough.
“I’ve rescued perfectly awful food with a few dashes of Tabasco to make it edible.”
Yup. I think that is why they used to (maybe still do? I don’t know.) put a miniature bottle of the stuff in every MRE.
If you got an MRE that was a bit sketchy, dumping in the Tabasco made it anywhere from tolerable to downright delicious.
Too bad, too; they were the most effective soil fumigants for killing not only insects, soil pests, and fungi; but were also the most effective against weed seeds. But, that is what government is for: screwing the people.
No; pigweed is a different, unrelated plant altogether. Pigweed is in the amaranth family...Hippie "grains".
What you're thinking of is "hogweed" and/or "giant hogweed", two similar, closely related plants: one is big (4-6' tall); the other is bigger (6-9" tall). They're members of the 'carrot family', with very nasty sap.
That is good info, thanks!
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