Reference: http://www.agriculture.com/crops/pesticides/herbicides/8-ways-to-make-new-herbicidetolert_179-ar46691 Rotating different herbicide modes of action and applying pre-emergence residual herbicides in Jim Call’s corn and soybeans are a couple ways the Madison, Minnesota, farmer fends off herbicide-resistant weeds. These days, though, keeping ahead of glyphosate-resistant weeds like waterhemp keeps Call busy. “I’ve been dealing...
Reference: http://www.agriculture.com/crops/pesticides/herbicides/controlling-pigweed_179-ar42464 The pigweed family of weeds is a late-season stalker of soybeans. It often survives your best early-control efforts and ends up towering over soybean fields in August and September. This infamous weed family includes common waterhemp, Palmer amaranth, and redroot and smooth pigweed. Compounding pigweed...
Reference: http://www.agriculture.com/crops/pesticides/herbicides/start-cle-stay-cle_179-ar42077 Herbicide-resistant weeds are spreading, and it’s important to know how to recognize them. “The problem is much more widely spread than what I think many of the growers recognize,” says Mike Owen, Iowa State University Extension weed specialist. How do you recognize the problem? It starts...
By admin in BlogPosted February 9, 2016 at 06:39 PMReference: http://www.agriculture.com/crops/pesticides/herbicides/120000000-pest-thats-just-one-state_179-ar34725 Perhaps you’re taking the Alfred E. Neuman approach to herbicide-resistant weeds: “What, me worry?” If so, Tennessee farmers can give you 120 million reasons why that won’t work. Back in 2011, Larry Steckel, University of Tennessee...