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Farm Forum Show - Day Two

January 20, 2010

Crop and herbicide rotations keep canola clean

While growers of glyphosate-tolerant soybeans, corn and cotton elsewhere in North America fret about the future of their favourite herbicide, Canada's canola growers have so far seen no evidence of glyphosate-resistant weeds invading their fields.

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Here come the HPPD inhibitors

A resistance trait in Bayer CropScience's development pipeline is expected to extend the use of HPPD-inhibitor herbicides into broadleaf crops.

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Resistant weeds surge on Prairies

Here on the Prairies, Group 1 resistance is spreading rapidly, Group 2 resistance has made its way into 19 species including "all kochia populations" and reports of weeds controlled by neither Group 1 nor 2 are also increasing.

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Not your father's atrazine?

Weeds that quickly developed resistance to triazine herbicides are still around today, but growers changed the way they used the products, such as the corn herbicide atrazine. Thus, over 40 years later, the chemical remains a key component of corn growers' weed control programs.

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