- Author: Steven Fennimore
Published on: November 2, 2017
It is well recognized that most specialty crops do not have sufficient herbicide coverage to provide commercially acceptable weed control. As a result, specialty crops generally have more complex and expensive weed control programs than agronomic crops. From the perspective of agricultural chemical companies, agronomic crops are much more attractive because there are so many more acres of agronomic crops like corn and soy than there are vegetable crops like broccoli and lettuce. When an herbicide is registered on a crop like field corn, which cover 90 million acres in the USA, a 10% market share means that the herbicide will be sold on 9 million acres and there is a plausible path to profitability for the chemical company. In contrast,...
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