Print This PageRoundup Ready Canola Advantages
Roundup Ready® canola allows you to spray Roundup Ready herbicide over the top of your canola in the early stages of growth without impacting on the development of the crop. This technology brings real and tangible benefits to growers in comparison to other available canola growing systems.
Farmers that have grown Roundup Ready canola technology have been enthusiastic about how well it performed against their alternative canola systems. A combination of grower feedback and comparative system research has identified the following benefits:
Powerful Weed Control
Roundup Ready technology delivers excellent broad spectrum weed control with the proven, trusted performance of Roundup Ready herbicide. Commercial experiences of Roundup Ready canola growers surveyed by Monsanto in 2008 demonstrated that Roundup Ready canola was predominantly grown where paddock weed pressure was highest, and yet 93% of growers rated their level of weed control as excellent compared to 27% for triazine tolerant and 44% for Clearfield canola. Quite simply, nothing controls weeds better than the Roundup Ready system.
Manage resistance issues
Roundup Ready canola offers an additional in-crop management tool for growers with pre-existing herbicide resistance issues. In a survey of Roundup Ready canola growers in 2008, resistance to one or more herbicide modes of action was present in 67% of cases, and 27% of respondents reported resistance to two or more herbicide groups. Weed populations with resistance to herbicide Groups A, B and C can now be reliably controlled in-crop with Roundup Ready herbicide, allowing growers to rotate their chemistry and to ensure that all of their herbicide options are effective when they need them.
Sustainable Weed Control
Roundup Ready canola is an environmentally friendly alternative to existing triazine tolerant systems. In fact, compared to triazine tolerant canola the environmental impact for Roundup Ready canola is 135% lower and the fuel use 5% lower1. Triazine tolerant canola relies on the use of atrazine, a residual herbicide which stays active in the soil for considerable periods of time and has been identified as an aquatic pollutant 6. Because of its residual nature, there is a greater risk of leakage of the herbicide into waterways. By using glyphosate based herbicides which are much less persistent, Roundup Ready canola can be a positive step towards cleaner waterways in our rural environment.
