Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn
by sokoloff on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:39PM
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Glyphosate is not considered a selective herbicide. It’s a borderline freak of nature that some varieties of corn can tolerate it.
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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn
by nemo44x on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:50PM
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You can engineer “round-up resistant” crop seed and then nuke the field leaving only your crop as survivor. In this context it is, but yes it is otherwise not.
Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn
by JamisonM on Monday August 09, 2021 @11:23PM
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So if the farmers didn't grow glysophate resistant corn instead they would grow non-GMO wheat and spray it with "selective" herbicides that kill wild oats and broadleaf plants over those acres and society would be better.. how exactly?
Roundup is a lot cheaper than Axial Extreme + MCPA or Velocity M3 or Tandem or Rexade.. and, TBH, Roundup isn't tha good at killing a lot of the weeds that those other products kill very well. It's just not as simple as you might think.