Weed Expert Warns North Dakota Growers Of Coming Herbicide Resistance Storm
February 9, 2016 Ford Baldwin painted a bleak picture of weed control at a recent workshop here exploring the future of ag production, reports Tracy Frank with Inforum.com.
“When we delivered the message in Arkansas, our farmers didn’t listen,” he said. “A lot of them tell me they wish they had.”
Baldwin, of Practical Weed Consultants, a crop-consulting business in Arkansas, talked at the “Sow What Now?” workshop about how herbicide-resistant weeds like Palmer amaranth have taken over entire fields in just a few years.
“It got ugly in a hurry,” he said. “You can choose to do what we did and go there, or you can choose to change your programs and do something different.”
Roundup (a herbicide with the active ingredient glyphosate) changed everything about agriculture because it was 100 percent weed control, Baldwin said.
“It brought an efficiency we never dreamed of,” he said.
Read the full story on North Dakota’s coming battle with herbicide resistance here.
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