Tank-mixing herbicides and other agrichemicals is a necessary practice to increase weed control and use machine hours wisely. This article gives a brief overview of the principles of tank-mix order for herbicide applications.
This article will explore glyphosate injury and discuss other types of wheat injury that could be caused by off-target movement of some of the herbicides that may be used during the early summer months.
Gabriel Carballal explains how no-till farming revolutionized agriculture in Uruguay, expanding from 988,000 acres to 4.45 million acres because of sustainable practices supported by herbicide use. The No-Till Passport series is brought to you by Martin Industries.
With increasing use of cover crops for different goals, we receive more questions each year regarding potential impacts of different herbicide programs on cover crops.
The dry pattern this fall may have reduced winter annual weed emergence, and we don’t appear to be headed into an overly wet pattern. It’s possible that weed populations are low and may not merit a fall application, although there are always more weeds out there than we think.
Growing — even in climates with a cold winter — is less about seasons and more about keeping the water, nutrient and carbon cycles turning to your advantage.
The proposed rules would reduce the concentration equivalent level of concern equivalent from 15 parts per billion to 3.4 parts per billion, reduce atrazine usage to a maximum of 2 pounds per acre per year, prohibit aerial spraying, and ban atrazine applications to saturated soils, as well as within 48 hours of forecasted heavy precipitation.
Whether regenerative ag continues to be a term talked about, or some other terms takes (eg: “biodynamic agriculture” or “climate smart agriculture”) its place, it’s useful to break down and understand not just the definition, but the principles that go into that definition.
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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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