Pan American Weed Conference - Day Two

January 21, 2010

Experts from universities, industry and Bayer CropScience are attending the first Pan American Weed Conference to share concepts and innovative herbicide technologies from January 19 – 21, 2010 in Miami. The Pan American Weed Resistance Conference brought together some 200 scientists, universities and research institutions and practitioners from North and South America to exchange experiences dealing with weed resistance and the propagation of practical and sustainable solutions. This is the coverage of the three day event.

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.
January 20, 2010 |  Read Full Story >

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. January 20, 2010 | Read Full Story >

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. January 20, 2010 | Read Full Story >

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. January 20, 2010 | Read Full Story >

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