Pesticide resistance is a major problem that occurs when a pesticide is used for control for years and then will no longer kill the pest. This is a billion dollar problem for US agriculture. In 1999 the cost of pesticides and the yield loss of crops to pesticide resistance was estimate at $1.5 billion in
Fifteen years ago genetically engineered crops hit the market much to the delight of farmers. These new Roundup-tolerant crops allowed farmers to simply spray the herbicide Roundup over their fields and everything died – except the corn, cotton, and soybeans. Recently, farmers have realized that certain weeds weren’t dying anymore; in Georgia that plant is