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What Approaches Are Most Likely to Encourage the Adoption of Best Management Practices?--A panel discussion
What Approaches Are Most Likely to Encourage the Adoption of Best Management Practices?--A panel discussion
Pages 27-36
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. Projects include work with major food corporations, schools, municipalities, and the structural pest management industry.
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Finally, we are working with food companies including Sysco, McDonald's, a major national supermarket chain, and their supply chains to improve sustainability and maintain competitiveness in the face of mounting consumer and shareholder interest in supporting corporations who share their values. Best practices are identified and promoted, and adoption is tracked throughout large supply chains.
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Specifically related to pesticide research, the major agricultural chemical companies are still the drivers of innovation, primarily due to their significant in-house expertise, infrastructure for chemical process development, and deep grower relations. New trends include increased innovation around seed coatings, new herbicide resistance genes for dicamba, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)
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Several biologics companies have acquired assets in this area and have targeted biologics as an area for growth. John Soteres, Chair, Herbicide Resistance Action Committee The Herbicide Resistance Action Committee is the industry stewardship group focused on weed resistance to herbicides and best practice strategies for resistance management.
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31 Paul B Thompson, Michigan State University Process Standards for Resolving Resource Conservation Dilemmas Although they go by different names, many challenges in natural resource management have the general structure of collective action problems.
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However, another type of mechanism has evolved that exploits the organization of food system supply chains as they currently exist in highly industrialized and global markets. These mechanisms involve tripartite standards regimes that include mechanisms for the creation, certification, and accreditation of process standards for food and fiber products produced on commercial farms (as well as some manufactured goods)
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. Although the National Organic Program is the most successful example of a current process standard, it may not be a particularly apt model for approaching the dilemmas of herbicide resistance.
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As with other areas reviewed above, process standards intended to address the welfare and well-being of agricultural animals are being developed under a number of distinct tripartite standards regimes. State agencies have been the primary actors in the European Union, though a number of retailers have attempted to establish standards for premium products that could be offered at higher prices.
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If an ethically convincing rationale emerges linking conservation of herbicide effectiveness to sustainability, it could be possible for retailers or other actors within the food and agricultural products industries to put process standards in place that virtually force producers to comply. If producers not only come to understand that they would benefit from compliance with herbicide conservation strategies, but they should act collectively to do so, the opportunity for effecting a tripartite standards regime to bring this about might well arise within the industry.
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We recently ran a series of workshops in Eastern Australia to communicate harvest weed-seed control techniques developed in Western Australia, which has a larger weed-resistance problem. Along with researchers such as myself, we invited three farmers to present at the workshops.
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