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Call to Action on Herbicide Resistance Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Harold D. Coble and
Jill Schroeder
Harold D. Coble*
Affiliation:
Crop Science Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
Jill Schroeder
Affiliation:
U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Pest Management Policy, Washington, DC 20250
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: Harold.coble@earthlink.net
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Abstract

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Management of herbicide resistance can be most effectively accomplished if every person and organization involved in agricultural production takes an ownership position and participates in solving the growing problem of weed resistance to herbicides. Growers and other pest management practitioners are keys to effective herbicide resistance management since they make the final decisions on practices used. However, many other people and organizations have an important role to play as well. Agricultural input supply networks, including chemical companies, are a widely used information source for growers' decisions through company marketing efforts. Government agencies may influence decisions through regulations or incentive programs. University scientists through their research, education, and outreach programs may impact management decisions, and organizations such as professional societies, farm and commodity groups, public interest organizations, and the agricultural press play roles as well. It is critically important that all of these groups impacting herbicide resistance management decisions are sending the same message and that message is based on sound science. The time to act is now.

Keywords

Agricultural communitybest management practiceevolved resistancemechanism of actionselection pressure

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Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 64 , Issue S1: Special Issue: Human Dimensions of Herbicide Resistance , 2016, pp. 661 - 666
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 by the Weed Science Society of America

Footnotes

Associate Editor for this paper: Sarah Ward, Colorado State University.

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