A Growing Common Challenge: Herbicide Resistance and Farmers’ Attitudes Toward Collective Management in Argentina

Ariel Singerman and Sergio Lence

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2024, vol. 39, issue 02

Abstract: Prior to the emergence of herbicides, farmers mainly used mechanical methods to control weeds around their crops. But these practices are energy-, labor-, and time-intensive (Shaw et al., 2012). By adopting herbicides, farmers were able to reduce the costs of controlling weeds, soil erosion, and energy consumption while increasing the capture and storage of carbon dioxide in the soil (Jussaume and Dentzman, 2016; Van Deynze, Swinton, and Hennessy, 2022). A new era in weed management began in the 1990s with the advent of commercial row crops that were genetically engineered to be herbicide-tolerant (HT) (Dill, 2005). Farmers were able to control weeds in their fields with just one chemical by planting crops tolerant to glyphosate, a broad-spectrum herbicide that at the time successfully killed most weeds (Swinton and Van Deynze, 2017).

Keywords: Crop; Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.344740

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