With row crop harvest underway, it’s time to start planning your fall herbicide applications to control winter annual broadleaf weeds and grasses ahead of grain sorghum or corn.

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.

Now is the time to think about controlling summer annual weeds prior to seed set in cropping situations where this is possible.

The wet season has delayed crop development and post-emergence herbicide applications in many soybean fields, and there are some large giant ragweed waiting to be treated.

Slow planting progress this spring has led to all efforts focused on getting the crop in the ground.

From October 16th, 2012 - November 15th, 2012, we asked No-Till Farmer readers: "Will you make herbicide applications this fall to any of your planned crop acreage for 2013?"

With the rapid start to the 2012 crop season, plant development may be further along than you'd like for some field activities.

Getting a well-established dandelion population under control can be a several-year process of implementing the most effective treatments in both fall and spring.

The optimum timing of fall herbicide treatments can vary based on life cycle. The timing of frost impacts which weed you can control and when.