We realize this article is about terrestrial weeds, but can’t help but make the connection to aquatic plants and the need to have many options in the lake management plan.
When weeds begin showing resistance, it’s not a case of the herbicide changing the weed, it’s a simple “survival of the fittest” case, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist.
According to Scott Nolte, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension weed specialist, College Station, “You have to rotate the things that work, otherwise they eventually won’t work.”