The wrong herbicide used at the wrong time, or impacted by the wrong environmental conditions, can limit — or even destroy — a costly cover crop seeding.
Sometimes cover crops fail. This is especially true as no-tillers navigate the trial-and-error years of determining what species, seeding methods and timings work in their region and on their farm.
The 2014 harvest season has started and should be in high gear within the next week. As producers begin harvest they will need to be thinking about many management plans for next seasons crop. Herbicide programs and weed management strategies will be one of those topics that producers need to consider this fall as harvest wraps up this current growing season.
Early season weed control is imperative to maximize soybean yield. Many soybean growers were unable to apply pre-emergence, residual herbicides prior to soybean emergence.
With hundreds of no-tillers looking on, Bryan Young showed no-tillers last winter some PowerPoint slides that spelled out a troubling end game: In state after state, glyphosate-resistant weeds have been winning the battle for crop acres.
As more growers face resistance issues in their fields, researchers are recommending the addition of residual herbicides for a comprehensive herbicide program.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Martin-Till, Brian and Darren Hefty, fourth-generation farmers and hosts of Ag PhD, share tips for treating tar spot in corn.
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