Weeds
Get ahead of weed pressure and supply challenges this fall for a cleaner start to planting next spring.
Four growers from Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and Colorado, sound off regarding weed control in 2021.
The emerging bioherbicide market offers an alternative tool.
These biological products have the ability to increase germination, improve nutrient uptake, enhance nutrient-use efficiency and increase tolerance to and recovery from abiotic stresses.
Careful notes and planning will put you ahead of weeds.
Weeds cost farmers money in ways such as yield loss, contamination, harboring insects or disease or even wear and tear on equipment.
Farmer beware: The future impact of herbicide-resistant weeds is a question within a greater Pandora’s Box.
It costs beef producers about 45 cents a day to feed a cow or steer on pasture, making it the most cost-effective way to pack on pounds.
Bayer filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court verdict that upheld damages to a customer blaming his cancer on the Bayer’s glyphosate-based weedkillers.
Ongoing litigation contributed to the company’s decision. However, farmers and retailers will continue to have access to glyphosate for weed control, company officials say.
Syngenta says the long residual control offered by Acuron GT will allow farmers and retailers to apply it in a post application before weeds can emerge and compete with the crop.
Corteva Agriscience has a robust number of products it expects to introduce to U.S. farmers between now and 2023 for use in more than 10 crops.
The molecule will give farmers a new tool in the ongoing battle to control these two broadleaf weeds, especially those populations with resistance to current, commonly used chemistries.
A report issued on Monday describes at least three ways EPA stumbled in its policies and practices.
Could Palmer amaranth, the king of resistant weeds and crippler of herbicides, be dethroned by its own sex drive? A herbicide-free technology is under testing and aims to attack pigweed with its own pollen.
A federal appeals court upheld a $25 million judgment and trial verdict finding Roundup caused a California resident’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma, dealing a blow to Bayer’s hopes of limiting legal risk over the weed killer.
Many commonly used herbicides are hard to find, and prices are trending higher. Fungicide availability may also be limited in some cases.
This is the first season for full-scale commercial use by U.S. and Canadian farmers of the technology.
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Grassy weeds in sorghum have historically been extremely difficult if not impossible to control in-season.
Corteva Agriscience is introducing four Pioneer brand sorghum seed varieties containing the new, non-transgenic Inzen trait this season in the High Plains.
The first documented case of glufosinate resistance in Palmer amaranth has been recorded in northeast Arkansas.
An old concept gets a new chance to combat weeds
More weeds, less yield. Simple math. “We could have had more beans out there if we’d had better control of weeds,” Chip Flory says.
Frank Forcella has designed a four-row organic grit blaster capable of obliterating weeds.
On the doorstep of an immediate in-crop use ban, the dicamba issue is hanging in limbo after a roller coaster ride.
With alarm bells ringing in multiple states over confirmed PPO-resistant pigweed, is the weed control cavalry expected in soybean fields anytime soon? Bolstered by new technologies, help might be on the way within the next five years.
Artificial intelligence recognizes crop, targets weeds
Waterhemp has piled on genetic muscle and built documented resistance to herbicides from six separate site of action groups in Illinois. Yet, even more alarming are the consequences of stacked resistance in waterhemp. Once resistance begins stacking, what’s the snowball effect of a weed juggernaut?
A dicamba cloud rolled across U.S. agriculture in 2016 and turned the crop season into a high-stakes waiting game as producers wondered whose soybean crop would cup and when more symptoms would appear.