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Cotton farmers face a formidable foe By GREG BLUESTEINAssociated Press “It’s the worst I’ve ever seen. I’ve been doing this for 35 years and it’s just as bad as the boll weevil,” said Griffin. “You can’t plant cotton like we used to. It’s resistant to just about everything. You can throw everything at it you want to, but you ain’t going to kill it.”
To Culpepper, it’s a frustrating — and sometimes hopeless — battle. He quickly set up an experiment station in Ideal and seven other plots throughout Georgia after the herbicide-resistant plant cropped up here. But even when fields are sprayed with 25 times the normal amount of herbicide, there are still signs of pigweed poking out. With the next era of chemicals not likely to be commercially ready until 2013, Culpepper is focusing on teaching farmers about the threat. At lectures to groups in 17 states, he sounds more like a high school health teacher than a weed specialist, telling them the only proven method to stop the weed is prevention. “This field started with one or two plants, and now it’s across 500 acres,” said Culpepper, waving his hands over the field of pigweed. “If a single pigweed plant is allowed to germinate, it can spread 500,000 seeds across the land. The game is over.” 
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