WC IL | bensonbleu - 6/10/2024 19:00
This is why Monsanto chose to go with Dicamba. Long before the commercialization of the Dicamba and 2–4D traits, academia warned that weed resistance would develop to 2–4 D. Looks like that’s turning out to be the case. Bayer has a new herbicide molecule in the works that is not yet approved by EPA. If approved, it would be the first new molecule in decades, Bayer also has a five way and six way herbicide trait for soybeans in the works. It will be a couple years before those new traits start working their way into the marketplace.
There is resistance to dicamba, too. Plenty of people said that would happen as well.
2,4D has been around since what, 1946? Took longer to form resistance than a lot of the chemistry developed since then. |