Friday, January 13, 2012

Roundup-Resistant Weed Spreads to Canadian Prairies

Jan 11, 2012 Reuters Canada
WINNIPEG, Manitoba - A weed resistant to a widely used chemical to protect crops has spread for the first time to Western Canada, the country's grain and canola belt. Read more here. 
Kochia, Kochia scoparia.  
Photo by Jack Kelly Clark.

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