Glyphosate market drying up

[Guest]

Glyphosate has slowed the development of herbicide resistant weeds. And reduced the use of older more toxic herbicide chemistries.

No longer true today. Your bar graphs are over 10 years old and don't reflect the current failures in the chemical experiment. Other strategies such as tillage are being encouraged even by the makers of glyphosate, that's how sad and desperate the situation is. Older more toxic chemistry? Paraquat use is on the rise in the countries that haven't banned it.

[ColevilleH2S]

If your stats are accurate, global pesticide use (herbicide, insecticide, fungicide, etc) has gone up 25% since the year 2000. At the same time total food production has outpaced that figure by 2X. So less pesticide use per kg of food produced.

Quite the accomplishment

[makar]

Going back to using edge for canola would break more growers than me.

[Sodbuster]

We’ve opted to not seed any RR crops and use it exclusively for weeds in the hope that resistance weeds will take longer to develop, only time will tell. So only spraying glyphosate once for preburn and possibly a 2nd time for pre harvest or post harvest depending on weeds. Not saying no to genetically modified crops, just RR crops.

[blackpowder]

If your stats are accurate, global pesticide use (herbicide, insecticide, fungicide, etc) has gone up 25% since the year 2000. At the same time total food production has outpaced that figure by 2X. So less pesticide use per kg of food produced.

Quite the accomplishment

And diesel fuel usage is 1/3 as before. That should be included in all these examples.

[Guest]

We’ve opted to not seed any RR crops and use it exclusively for weeds in the hope that resistance weeds will take longer to develop, only time will tell. So only spraying glyphosate once for preburn and possibly a 2nd time for pre harvest or post harvest depending on weeds. Not saying no to genetically modified crops, just RR crops.

Same here

[furrowtickler]

We’ve opted to not seed any RR crops and use it exclusively for weeds in the hope that resistance weeds will take longer to develop, only time will tell. So only spraying glyphosate once for preburn and possibly a 2nd time for pre harvest or post harvest depending on weeds. Not saying no to genetically modified crops, just RR crops.

Been a trend for several years now across western Canada .

[Guest]

If your stats are accurate, global pesticide use (herbicide, insecticide, fungicide, etc) has gone up 25% since the year 2000. At the same time total food production has outpaced that figure by 2X. So less pesticide use per kg of food produced.

Quite the accomplishment

Check your math. More like over 60%. So more pesticides per kilo of food produced and you had 5 likes? I hope you don't calibrate your sprayer like that.

[blackpowder]

Switching to all RR canola here.
Don't want to. Have to. Concerned about yield here firstly.
Multi chem resistant wild oats becoming serious issue.
Upside, I'll be using less active herbicide by far.

[Guest]

Switching to all RR canola here.
Don't want to. Have to. Concerned about yield here firstly.
Multi chem resistant wild oats becoming serious issue.
Upside, I'll be using less active herbicide by far.

4years ago, glyphosate resistant wild oats was discovered in Australia. Coming soon to a farm near you.
By default when you spray, you select the survivors.
More recently in Western Australia a population of ryegrass weeds was found to be resistant to both glyphosate and paraquat in the same plant.