Glyphosate Failing !!! --- Ford Baldwin of Practical Weed Consultants, LLC, in Austin, Ark., says Midwest growers are just two years away from losing glyphosate as an effective herbicide --- Midwest Farmers Are Approaching Weed Control “Train Wreck” | Farm Journal Magazine

Glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine) is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf weeds and grasses known to compete with commercial crops grown around the globe. Initially patented and sold by Monsanto Company in the 1970s under the tradename Roundup, its US patent expired in 2000. Glyphosate is the most used herbicide in the US.[3] Exact figures are hard to come by because the US Department of Agriculture stopped updating its pesticide use database in 2008.[4] The EPA estimates that in the US during 2007, the agricultural market used 180 to 185 million pounds (82,000 to 84,000 tonnes) of glyphosate, the home and garden market used 5 to 8 million pounds (2,300 to 3,600 tonnes), and industry, commerce and government used 13 to 15 million pounds (5,900 to 6,800 tonnes), according to its Pesticide Industry Sales & Usage Report for 2006-2007 published in February, 2011.[5][6] While glyphosate has been associated with deformities in a host of laboratory animals, its impact on humans remains unclear.[6]


Published on Jun 27, 2012 by CornSoybeanDigest

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Ford Baldwin of Practical Weed Consultants, LLC, in Austin, Ark., says Midwest growers are just two years away from losing glyphosate as an effective herbicide -- just as Southern farmers already have. "It's now a grass herbicide in the South," said Baldwin, who was speaking on "Weed Resistance 2.0" during Beck's Hybrid Media Day in Atlanta, IN. "We can no longer build a herbicide program around it.
"It's not just a broadleaf weed (herbicide) anymore."

In the Midwest, he sees the same resistant weeds and the same denial agronomic practices need to change. "The same mentality is in place. ... That's just two years away from a train wreck," he says.


Midwest Farmers Are Approaching Weed Control “Train Wreck” | Farm Journal Magazine
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JUNE 28, 2012
By: Rhonda Brooks, Farm Journal Seeds & Production Editor

Respected weed expert says the days of easy weed control practices are over.

Well-known weed expert Ford Baldwin says his typically optimistic outlook on weed-control issues is downright pessimistic today regarding the future of glyphosate (Roundup) use as a foundation for Midwest farmers’ weed-control programs.

"It will be a grass herbicide in the Midwest in two years," contends Baldwin, owner of Practical Weed Consultants LLC, Austin, Ark., and former University of Arkansas Extension weed specialist.

Baldwin made the gloomy prediction during the Beck’s Hybrids media day in Carmel, Ind., earlier this week.

Baldwin says he has worked and traveled throughout the Midwest the past four summers and has seen the same issues there that predated the weed resistance explosion in southern states.

"I’ve been all over the Midwest, and the last three or four summers you’ve got everything we got—the weed patches, streaks of weeds and grown-up fields," he notes, adding, "People want to sit back and say this problem is a southern problem, but I just say where does the South end and the North begin."

Baldwin talks further about his weed-control outlook and recommends some practices he believes would help farmers more effectively address weed issues.

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- Kind of Expected by Some of Us!!!
- NOW WHAT IS MODERN AGRICULTURE GOING TO DO???
- WHEN DO WE WAKE UP THESE CHEMICALS ARE DESTROYING OUR SOILS, ADVERSELY AFFECTING THE HEALTH OF OUR ENVIRONMENT, AND COSTING US GREATLY, LONG TERM ???
                                                  ... Monte Hines
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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEDi7PGY2N4
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