{"id":758,"date":"2018-02-23T15:45:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/?p=758"},"modified":"2018-02-23T15:46:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:46:02","slug":"upcoming-changes-to-paraquat-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/2018\/02\/upcoming-changes-to-paraquat-label\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Changes to Paraquat Label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paraquat is the active ingredient in several popular herbicide formulations used in Georgia (Firestorm, Gramoxone, Helmquat, and Parazone).\u00a0 It has multiple uses including preplant burndown applications, early-postemergence weed control in peanut, and as a soybean harvest-aid.\u00a0 Paraquat registration has been under review by the EPA and many changes will be occurring in the very near future.\u00a0 The main reason for these changes is that many people have died over the years from ingesting paraquat that was improperly stored in various types of containers (cans, plastic bottles, cups, etc.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/files\/2018\/02\/paraquat-changes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-759\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/files\/2018\/02\/paraquat-changes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/files\/2018\/02\/paraquat-changes.jpg 960w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/files\/2018\/02\/paraquat-changes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/files\/2018\/02\/paraquat-changes-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/files\/2018\/02\/paraquat-changes-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paraquat is the active ingredient in several popular herbicide formulations used in Georgia (Firestorm, Gramoxone, Helmquat, and Parazone).\u00a0 It has multiple uses including preplant burndown applications, early-postemergence weed control in peanut, and as a soybean harvest-aid.\u00a0 Paraquat registration has been under review by the EPA and many changes will be occurring in the very near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[57,56],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-weed-control","tag-label-changes","tag-paraquat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tattnall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}