With the recent cold weather and varying degrees of injury, growers are looking for ways to help their young corn recover.

Numerous people have called to report carryover injury from applications of herbicides that contain fomesafen made last season.

Winter wheat varieties vary in their tolerance to winter hardiness or injury. Many of the winter wheat varieties that do not have as much tolerance to cold temperatures were able to survive the recent winters with milder temperatures.

We have fielded a number of calls from folks who believe they are seeing more metribuzin injury on wheat this fall than in previous years. I rated metribuzin tolerance in a number of county wheat trials scattered across West Tennessee to help address this question.

We have discussed this in the past, but it probably requires a review again with no-till wheat and other seedings commencing: