Could this be a super weed creation?: Midwestern weed scientists are sounding the alarm because the plant recently turned up in Iowa and can cause deep losses in corn and soybean yields. Cotton growers in the South already spend about $100 million a year to try to keep it out of their fields. Grimes said he was losing up to 200 pounds of cotton per acre until farmers learned the key to overcoming Palmer amaranths resistance to glyphosate — sold under brand names like Roundup — was to continuously change herbicides. finance.yahoo/news/beast-weed-creeping-across-midwest-145538118.html
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:45:03 +0000