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To: P-Marlowe; Neoliberalnot; Carry_Okie
You know, all cereal crops are raised with the application of herbicides. Perhaps you could explain for us how, say, tribenuron or metribuzin is so much more beneficial to your children's health than glyphosate.

The economic reason that glyphosate resistant wheat wasn't pushed all that hard was that efficacious broadleaf herbicides have been around for some time.

273 posted on 05/31/2013 11:48:16 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky

Ah, someone that knows about agriculture. I can’t think of a herbicide that doesn’t develop resistant weeds to continuous application—this is the reason one must rotate herbicide class use.


294 posted on 05/31/2013 12:39:00 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Mr. Lucky
The economic reason that glyphosate resistant wheat wasn't pushed all that hard was that efficacious broadleaf herbicides have been around for some time.

Yup, 2,4-D works and it was just recertified. OTOH, is wheat sufficiently allelopathic that it can resist intrusion by cheat grass?

367 posted on 05/31/2013 8:55:29 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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