Lauren Quinn
University of Illinois
A few years back, a group of weed scientists showed that soil-applied herbicides are less effective against agricultural weeds in the context of the changing climate. Now, the same research group, led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has shown the same is true of post-emergence herbicides.
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