If you can’t easily beat the weeds growing in your no-tilled fields, then you need to come up with a better plan to crowd them out. That’s the wisdom gleaned from a recent weed control analysis on how narrower rows in corn and soybeans impact weed control.

Vanessa Corriher-Olson, Ph.D., Overton, and Jamie Foster, Ph.D., Beeville, said careful management early in a drought can minimize long-term stand damage and help maintain forage yields when rains do come.