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Originally Posted by The Fonz
I sell chemical for a living. The increase in usage is a result of record low chemical costs + record high seeded acres.
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Can you please start presenting evidence to back up your statements. With all due respect this is the second time that you have thrown out an erroneous statement as fact with nothing to back it up. The paper presented makes zero mention of your reasons and instead states that ......
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"Largely because of the spread of glyphosate-resistant weeds, HR crop technology has led to a 239 million kg (527 million pound) increase in herbicide use across the three major GE-HR crops, compared to what herbicide use would likely have been in the absence of HR crops. Well-documented increases in glyphosate applications per hectare of HR crop accountfor the majority of this 239 million kg increase"
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Can you present something to refute this and/or back up your claim? All I'm asking again for is some form of evidence that GMOs are requiring less chemicals when I present evidence that they are using more.
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Originally Posted by The Fonz
http://www.agriculture.gov.sk.ca/Default.aspx?DN=0a05f6f5-a8e4-4a4a-bcfd-7e911a675afe
Seeded acres in Saskatchewan in 2012 were up 18% from 2011, and up 8% from the 10 year average (2002-2011).
This has obviously had a major impact on the kg/ac of herbicides applied, as summerfallow acres are at record lows.
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What on earth?
Are you seriously replying to a paper on increased herbicide use in the United States by presenting Saskatchewan seeding and summerfallow data and suggesting that it is having a major impact on /explains the kg/ac of herbicides applied in the United States?