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BY BARB GLEN
LETHBRIDGE BUREAU
Glyphosate, the herbicide that
has revolutionized weed control
since its introduction in 1974, faces
steadily increasing restrictions and
in some cases outright bans in vari-
ous countries around the world.
That situation is putting pressure
on farmers to find alternative mea-
sures of weed control. Though
there is increased emphasis now
on developing new modes of
action in herbicides, the loss of
glyphosate in the weed control
arsenal would be a major blow,
said weed scientist Hugh Beckie.
Beckie, formerly with Agriculture
Canada in Saskatoon, is now direc-
tor of Australia’s herbicide resis-
tance initiative at the University of
Western Australia in Perth.
“Yes, we’re seeing a resurgence in
herbicide discovery, but it’s still
going to be not what it was in the
’50s, ’60s and ’70s, the heydays of
the chemical era,” Beckie told those
at the December Farming Smarter
conference in Lethbridge.
“But also we’re seeing a number of
countries that are banning not just
glyphosate but products like pera-
quat, 2,4-D, some fungicides and
herbicides, so I expect, for example,
in five years the majority of the Euro-
pean Union countries will have
banned glyphosate. Peraquat is
already banned in many areas.
“In Australia, we’re quite con-
cerned about losing glyphosate.
Most growers think we will lose it in
the next five years. And it’s not just
glyphosate. It could be other herbi-
cides as well.… Certainly in conser-
vation tillage, glyphosate has been
the bedrock and so if we lose
glyphosate, there would certainly
be more mechanical weed control.”
Beckie has long been at the fore-
front of research into herbicide
resistant weeds. Australian farmers
have been battling them for years
but are able to remain profitable by
using an array of management
tools, he said.
Among those is the use of “crop
topping,” in which peraquat or
glyphosate are sprayed pre-harvest
to reduce weed seed set and to des-
iccate the crop.
“Harvest weed seed control, we
call that the holy grail of weed man-
agement, and that’s really kept a lot
of growers in Australia in business
when times were tough,” Beckie
said.“In Australia I would guess that 90
percent of growers use some form
of harvest weed seed control.”
Agriculture contemplates
life without glyphosate
Weed control alternatives needed as farmers face the possibility of losing important herbicides
BY SEAN PRATT
SASKATOON NEWSROOM
The malting barley industry is at a
crossroads, says the managing
director of the Canadian Malting
Barley Technical Centre.
AC Metcalfe is releasing its stran-
glehold on acres, making room for
a collection of up-and-coming,
higher-yielding new varieties, said
Peter Watts.
Western Canadian far mers
planted 652,398 acres of Metcalfe
in 2019, representing 24 percent of
total malt barley acres last year.
That was good for second place
behind CDC Copeland’s 1.16 mil-
lion acres and 44 percent share of
the market.
Copeland’s market share is
declining as well but not nearly as
fast as Metcalfe.
End of an era:
AC Metcalfe
loses its grip
Malting barley variety
that dominated market
for 14 years now making
way for newer varieties
SEE END OF ERA, PAGE 5 »
SEE WITHOUT GLYPHOSATE, PAGE 4 »
THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020
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