Bryce Gray, "Reports of crop damage resurfacing since Missouri dicamba ban lifted," St Louis Post-Dispatch, August 4, 2017. SUMMARY: Reports that the dicamba ban in Missouri was lifted in Mid-July and farmers had resumed spraying. Damage reports are re-occurring. One farmer…
Mario Parker, "Pesticide ‘Drifting’ Wreaks Havoc Across U.S. Crops," Bloomberg, August 1, 2017. SUMMARY: Bloomberg reports on the dicamba damage numbers. Article includes key information from Monsanto about number of acres planted in dicamba-resistant soybeans (20 million) and cotton (5…
Kevin Bradley, July 25, 2017, "Ag Industry, Do we have a problem yet?," Integrated Pest and Crop Management, University of Missouri. SUMMARY: Article summarizes the total number of dicamba-related drift complaints as 1,411 as of July 19, 2017. Arkansas leads…
Environmental Protection Agency, "Permanent Group 1 Tolerances By Pesticide," August 3, 1999. SUMMARY: Sets tolerances for pesticides after the passage of the FQPA. FULL TEXT
Environmental Protection Agency, "Reassessed Group 2 Tolerances by Pesticide," August 4, 1999. SUMMARY: Reassessed tolerances for pesticides following the passage of the FQPA. FULL TEXT
Environmental Protection Agency, 40 CFR Parts 180, 185, and 186, "Consolidation of Certain Food and Feed Additive Tolerance Regulations," Federal Register, Vol. 65, No. 101, May 24, 2000. SUMMARY: The Office of Pesticide Programs is transferring certain of the pesticide food and feed…
Richard H Coupe, Stephen J Kalkhoff, Paul D Capelc, and Caroline Gregoired, "Fate and transport of glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid in surface waters of agricultural basins," Pest Management Science, 2012, 68:1, 16-30, DOI: 10.1002/ps.2212. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Glyphosate [N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine] is a herbicide used widely throughout the…
Luiz Henrique Saes Zobiole, Rubem Silvério de Oliveira Jr., Robert John Kremer, Jamil Constantin, Carlos Moacir Bonato, Antonio Saraiva Muniz, "Water use efficiency and photosynthesis of glyphosate-resistant soybean as affected by glyphosate," Biochemistry and Physiology, 2010, 97: 182-193, DOI: 10.1016/j.pestbp.2010.01.004. ABSTRACT: Previous studies comparing cultivars of…
Jason Paul Londo, John McKinney, Matthew Schwartz, Mike Bollman, Cynthia Sagers, and Lidia Watrud, "Sub-lethal glyphosate exposure alters flowering phenology and causes transient male-sterility in Brassica spp," BMC Plant Biology, 2014, 14:70. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Herbicide resistance in weedy plant populations can develop through…
William G. Johnson, Vince M. Davis, Greg R. Kruger, Stephen C. Weller, "Influence of glyphosate-resistant cropping systems on weed species shifts and glyphosate-resistant weed populations," European Journal of Agonomy, 2009, 31, 162-172, DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2009.03.008. ABSTRACT: Glyphosate-resistant (GR) crops have facilitated increases in conservation…