Glyphosate market drying up

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[url]https://www.agriculture.com/artificial-intelligence-takes-on-weeds-8405451[/url]

The other main reason that the glyphoshit market is drying up is technology. This is rapidly being implemented in Oz. Save upwards of 80% on chemical resulting in 2 to 3 year investment recapture. One caveat, still doesn't work with resistant weeds.

[furrowtickler]

Or there is this , but then chuck will report you for carbon emissions

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Burn baby burn!

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This is the future today

[Taiga]

Neat, the 2-4ac/hr (1-2mph operating speed) will be the holdup but if they get autonomous tractors going then it has promise.
I signed up for Vermeer’s autonomous bale stacker/retriever but no timeline when it will be available.

[jamesb]

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Yes, as the article states , it is very important to use other types of herbicides with Round up as to keep its effectiveness. It must be 25 years ago now when this was starting to be talked about. There are a lot of choices now for add ins with roundup. Authority is a great add in ahead of peas, season long kochia control. Heat is another that works good most of the time. Keep changing the add in is important to keep roundup working. A diverse crop rotation using many different chemical groups is probably the most effective way to avoid herbicide resistance.

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Yes, as the article states , it is very important to use other types of herbicides with Round up as to keep its effectiveness. It must be 25 years ago now when this was starting to be talked about. There are a lot of choices now for add ins with roundup. Authority is a great add in ahead of peas, season long kochia control. Heat is another that works good most of the time. Keep changing the add in is important to keep roundup working. A diverse crop rotation using many different chemical groups is probably the most effective way to avoid herbicide resistance.

Yes and the experiment continues at your expense. Doesn't sound too costly when you call it add ins. You're on the treadmill, big pharma loves you.
That strategy keeps limping along till it ultimately fails. Safe and effective, till it isn’t. The next step you can expect is to spend big money on camera spray technology and weed seed mills. How much are they selling for over there? No change out $300,000 here.


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[jamesb]

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Yes, that's why a diverse crop rotation is so important. The corn / soybean crop plan is showing real problems. We grow a far more diverse rotation now than we ever use to. The of the issues is to find markets for the more minor crops, growing them wasn't the problem. Warm season crops, cool season crops the choices are out there. Don't seed the same fields the same time every year, different chemical groups, pulses, cereals, oil seeds, spices, millets, alfalfa, and fall rye is a great tools to change up rotations. Getting out there and scouting is a must. I remember back in the 80's when we found out that our area had Treflan resistance wild millet. Every one was using pails and pails of that stuff though flood jets on the harrow bar. It pretty much ended over night in our area. Its funny though, I remember the years before roundup was available for a decent price and weeds like quack grass was a major problem. We wore out a lot of cultivator shovels trying to kill quack. With roundup use , that weed has disappeared. Dandelions and canada thistle used to a pain, but except on rare occasion's its not a issue. The neighbors organic crop of wild mustard in the wheat field is something to behold though.