Roundup ready corn

rrlund · Jun 2, 2020

I never pondered this before, and I know you can get in trouble for doing it, but if you took roundup ready corn right out of the bin, that you grew the year before, and planted it, would the plants that grow from it be glyphosate tolerant? I know hybrids won't have the same traits if you replant them, but glyphosate tolerance is a genetically modified trait, not a hybrid trait isn't it?

MJMJ · Jun 2, 2020

Yeah, thats why its not allowed.

centash · Jun 2, 2020

Yep....ever seen a field of RR soys with volunteer corn growing in it? Can be a real problem in some specialty soy crops, some guys resort to pulling it all out by hand. I think some of the patents for RR crops have expired and you may be able to plant your own seeds....of course, corn won't be one of them.

Ben

WGM · Jun 2, 2020

RR volunteer corn in RR soybeans is not a problem. Any conventional grass herbicide will take care of the corn. The problem as I see it is RR volunteer corn in RR corn.

rrlund · Jun 3, 2020

It comes up wild around the cribs, but it usually gets cut down with the weed whacker when it's small. I never tried spraying it with RR to try to kill it. It just got to running through my mind the other day when I was finishing up planting.

Brown Swiss · Jun 3, 2020

I don't understand it but I spray along the corn crib and about 2 to 3 percent will die from round up!

rrlund · Jun 3, 2020

The wife was way off. When I asked her if she knew, she said she thought 50% would die. Not that she's done it to find out, but it's always fun to tell her she's wrong.... until it isn't. LOL

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