Source: Tom J. Bechman, FARM PROGRESS, 7/7/20


In the 1970s you could take out weeds and not touch the crop with low-tech methods. It was called a rope wick, dispensing glyphosate on tall weeds above the soybean canopy. Roundup Ready soybeans made that technology obsolete. Nearly 50 years later, will super high-tech solutions allow spraying weeds and not the crop, even if the crop is tolerant to the herbicide? Several companies and scientists think so.

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