[CH] Re: OT: Roundup, volunteer corn

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>From: Susan Byers <chilewmn@bluemarble.net>


>Farmers have been asked to either switch over to
>soybeans (on the theory that they will somehow then be able to go inand
>yank out the offending Starlink)

When volunteer corn plants come up in soy fields, they are often killed by 
using Roundup or some such in a "wand" application - the herbicide isn't 
sprayed, it's saturated onto absorbent material on long wands held out 
horizontally, too high to reach the soy plants but the right height to swipe 
the taller corn volunteers.  So there's a reason to develop a 
Roundup-resistant soy...




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