Preparing for glyphosate resistance

Rick Boydston is part of team working to educate orchardists and vineyardists how to prevent and manage glyphosate-resistant weeds. For decades, glyphosate has been the cornerstone of weed programs in perennial crops like tree fruit and grapes. However, several cases of glyphosate-resistant weeds have been reported recently in the western United States, highlighting the need to step up resistance management efforts before weed resistance becomes widespread. Fortunately for grape growers and orchardists, help is coming. A team of western state researchers, pooling their ­talents, is in the midst of developing an extension publication on glyphosate stewardship and optimizing glyphosate performance […]