Johnathan Hettinger, "EPA eased herbicide regulations following Monsanto research, records show," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 1, 2018. SUMMARY: Reports on a document review investigation that reveals that Monsanto's own science played a key role in how the use restrictions for the…
Kevin Bradley, “July 15 Dicamba injury update. Different Year, same questions,” Integrated Pest Management, University of Missouri, July 19, 2018. SUMMARY: latest drift-damage estimates from 2018 have been released by Dr. Kevin Bradley, University of Missouri Division of Plant Sciences. Bradley…
Madelyn Beck, "Federal Suit Alleges Companies Knew Dicamba Would Drift, Monsanto Created Monopoly," KUNC Radio, August 8, 2018. SUMMARY: Describes court documents filed August 2018 on two “master complaints” in the dicamba drift Multi District Litigation (MDL) pending in federal…
Merritt Kennedy, "West Texas Vineyards Blasted By Herbicide Drift From Nearby Cotton Fields," NPR, August 21, 2018. SUMMARY: Reports on vineyards in Texas damaged by dicmaba drift from Xtend cotton plantings. Grapes are particularly sensitive to dicamba, and can take years…
Adam S. Davis, George B. Frisvold, "Are herbicides a once in a century method of weed control?," Pest Management Science, 2017, 73:11, DOI: 10.1002/ps.443. ABSTRACT: The efficacy of any pesticide is an exhaustible resource that can be depleted over time. For…
Fred Gould, Zachary S. Brown, Jennifer Kuzma, "Wicked evolution: Can we address the sociobiological dilemma of pesticide resistance?," Science, May 18, 2018, 360: 6390, DOI: 10.1126/science.aar3780. ABSTRACT: Resistance to insecticides and herbicides has cost billions of U.S. dollars in the agricultural sector and could result…
Matt Liebman, Bàrbara Baraibar, Yvonne Buckley, Dylan Childs, Svend Christensen, Roger Cousens, Hanan Eizenberg, Sanne Heijting, Donato Loddo, Aldo Merotto Jr, Michael Renton, Marleen Riemens, "Ecologically sustainable weed management: How do we get from proof-of-concept to adoption?," Ecological Applications, 26:5, 2016, DOI:…
Paula R. Westerman, Matt Liebman, Fabián D. Menalled, Andrew H. Heggenstaller, Robert G. Hartzler, Philip M. Dixon, "Are many little hammers effective? Velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) population dynamics in two- and four-year crop rotation systems," Weed Science, 53, 2005. ABSTRACT: To improve understanding of relationships…
Matt Liebman, "Cultural techniques to manage weeds," in Integrated weed management for sustainable agriculture, Ed: Robert Zimdahl, 2017, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. SUMMARY: The focus of this chapter is on cultural techniques that can also contribute to effective weed management strategies, including choice…
Matt Liebman and Eric Gallandt, "Many Little Hammers: Ecological Management of Crop-Weed Interactions," In Ecology and Agriculture," Ed: L.E. Jackson, 1997, Academic Press. SUMMARY: This is the first introduction of the phrase "many little hammers" to describe what is now known…