- Posted By: Gale Perez
- Written by: Posted by David Low, WeedsNews2660 || written by Jessica M. Karmasek, LegalNewsline.com, 09 Dec. 2011
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Legal Newsline) - The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed Thursday a lower court's judgment awarding nearly $48 million in a case that challenged the state's cap on punitive damages. The amount was awarded to a group of farmers who alleged that genetically engineered rice made by chemical company Bayer hurt market prices. In the 1990s, the company and its corporate predecessors developed LibertyLink Rice, a genetically engineered rice that is resistant to Bayer's Liberty herbicide, a weed killer known for controlling red rice. Red rice, also known as weedy rice, will diminish yield and reduce the price of a rice crop. In August 2006, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that trace amounts of the genetically...
- Author: Brad Hanson
We recently updated the Herbicide Registration chart for California tree and vine crops. Since I've done this two years in a row, I think this is officially a trend and can be called an "annual update"!
The updated version of the T&V herbicide chart is attached at the bottom of this post and is also available at this link: http://wric.ucdavis.edu/PDFs/herbicide_registration_on_horticultural_tree_and_vine_%20crops_2011_10.pdf to the
- Author: Lynn M. Sosnoskie
I'm often asked the question: "Who is to blame for the development and spread of herbicide resistance in weeds?" Seeing as I am neither a lawyer nor a politician, I am not in the habit of pointing fingers and laying blame. Mostly, I just rephrase and redirect the question: "Who is responsible for preserving herbicide susceptibility in weeds?" The answer is easy and egalitarian: "We all are." If you really want to trip me up, ask me: "How do we preserve herbicide susceptibility?" Ummm…
Do you want me to give you the strict scientific game plan? Simple. Rotate crops, rotate chemistries, rotate strategies, etc…the best advice for managing your farm is the advice that you would employ in managing your bank account:...
- Posted By: Brad Hanson
- Written by: Dan Putnam
Article originally posted on the UC ANR Green Blog on October 11, 2011. Written by Danial Putnam and reposted with permission. Brad
Those of us who work with alfalfa have seen our much-loved Queen of Forages relegated to poster child of all things evil about genetic engineering (GE) and the supposed damage it may wreak. While hay growers have always felt alfalfa has received insufficient attention – this was probably not what they had in mind!
Those of us who work with alfalfa have seen our much-loved Queen of Forages relegated to poster child of all things evil about genetic engineering (GE) and the supposed...
- Posted By: Brad Hanson
- Written by: Kurt Hembree, Ryan Allen, Curtis Rainbolt, Jim Mueller et al., Richard Smith and Larry Bettiga, Emilio Laca et al., and others
Today I thought I'd put in a plug for the California Weed Science Society (CWSS) annual meeting to be held January 23-25, 2012 in Santa Barbara. Information on the meeting can be found in the October newsletter at: http://www.cwss.org/PDF/CWSS_Fall_2011_Newsletter.pdf and links to the Program and Registration can be found at: http://www.cwss.org/. The main CWSS page also has information on a new Photo Contest, the Student Paper and Poster Contest, the Student Scholarship Program, and Awards and Honors presented to students and members last year.
Also, I've attached a link to the
