by Micheal D. K. Owen
Novermber 17, 2011 - Infromation was released that describes the impact of atrazine on the environment, economics and the management of herbicide-resistant weeds. This information has been written in documents that will be submitted for rigourous peer review publication in scientific journals early in 2012. However drafts of these scientific papers and the webinar that was held at the recent National Farm Broadcasters Convention in Kansas City, MO are currently available at http://www.agritalk.com/atrazine/. The papers are also made available on this webpage. The include papers by David Bridges, Richard Fawcett, Paul Mitchell and the author. Dr. Bridges is the President of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and developed the paper "A biological analysis of the use and benefits of chloro-s-triazine herbicides in U.S. corn and sorghum production". Dr. Richard Fawcett is a private consultant and former Extension Weed Scientist and wrote about the environmental benefits of the chloro-s-triazine herbides in a paper titled "Efficacy of best management practices for reducing runoff of chloro-s-triazine herbicides to surface water: a review". Dr. Paul Mitchell is an member of the University of Wisconsin, Madison faculty in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and provided to papers entitled "Economic assessment of the benefits of chloro-s-triazine herbicides to U.S. corn, sorghum, and sugarcane producers" and "Estimating Soil Erosion and Fuel Use Changes and Their Monetary Values with AGSIM: A case study for triazine herbicides". The last paper of the group is titled "The importance of atrazine in the integrated management of herbicide-resistant weeds". The papers will be published in a yet to be determined refereed scientific journal in 2012, as previously indicated.