Billy wrote:
Scientific American, May 2011

AGRICULTURE
The Growing Menace from SUPERWEEDS
Pigweed, ragweed and other monsters have begun to outsmart
the advanced technologies that protect the biggest U.S. cash crops

i would not call it advanced,
instead it is quite retarded.


by Jerry Miller
....
THE MAKING OF KILLER RAGWEED
....
The solution, Gurian-Sherman argues, lies not with more expensive
technological fixes but with the kind of crop science that would have
been familiar to Gregor Mendel in the 19th century: incremental advances
in yield, drought resistance and fertilizer use. "We need a fundamental
shift in how we think about agriculture," he says, "and this isn't
getting us any closer to it." 5!

MORE TO EXPLORE
....
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ONLINE

More sources on superweeds at
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...s-farming-thre
at-ragweed-forest

absolutely no surprises in any
of this reading.


songbird