picloram

The problem you speak of with vegetable gardens is most closely associated with tomatoes which have a very low tolerance of picloram, unfortunately.

Is it safe to eat fish especially catfish from farm ponds that hold runoff from crop fields? 2009

The problem you speak of with vegetable gardens is most closely associated with tomatoes which have a very low tolerance of picloram, unfortunately.

Is it safe to eat fish especially catfish from farm ponds that hold runoff from crop fields? 2009

Compared to 2,4-D, picloram is much more mobile, better able to penetrate roots, and more toxic to plants.

Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982

Chemically, it was 80% 2,4-D and 20% picloram in a water-soluble formulation.

Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982

One important difference between picloram and the phenoxy herbicides is that it is persistent in soils whereas the phenoxy compounds generally are not.

Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982

Tests in Puerto Rico using direct applications of picloram to soil at rates four to six times greater than those employed in Vietnam had shown that only the most sensitive plant seedlings, soybeans, suffered ill effects six to twelve months later.

Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982

David informed Kissinger that all of the candidate substitutes for orange had drawbacks — 2,4-D was a suspected carcinogen and picloram was persistent and a soil sterilant.

Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982

The picloram in white was somewhat more persistent because microbes did not act on it as quickly.

Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982

A third compound used in the Ranch Hand herbicide formulations was picloram.

Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982

Some of the effects of picloram are to stunt leaves and cause terminal growth to stop.

Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982