Upcoming Event
A National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Location:
Jack Morton Auditorium, Media and Public Affairs Building, George Washington University
805 21st Street NW
Washington
DC
The NRC hosted a one-day, open national summit of weed scientists, agronomists, and ecologists, along with representatives of federal and state research and regulatory agencies, the crop protection industry, and agricultural producers, to consider a coordinated strategy for managing herbicide-resistant weeds in the United States. This summit will address:
| ~ | environmental implications of herbicide-resistant weeds |
| ~ | best management practices for addressing herbicide resistance |
| ~ | challenges to and incentives for adopting best management practices |
Policy-makers, agricultural producers, herbicide manufacturers, agronomists, and weed scientists can benefit from and contribute to these discussions.
For more information visit http://nas-sites.org/hr-weeds-summit