In the Spring, growers may experience challenges when controlling winter annuals weeds or terminating cover crops with glyphosate-based burndown herbicide programs, specifically when glyphosate is sprayed in cool, cloudy weather conditions.
Some cover crop species, such as oilseed radish or fall-planted oats, are likely to be killed by freezing over the winter. But, many cover crops will need to be terminated by mechanical or chemical methods in the spring.
Glyphosate-resistant horseweed populations have become more widespread in the state and are now a significant management issue in western PA and the Northern Tier. In addition to glyphosate- or glyphosate and ALS-inhibitor resistance, horseweed is challenging to control because of variable emergence patterns.
Kyro Herbicide is a novel combination of three effective modes of action for powerful broad-spectrum control of more than 65 broadleaf and grass weeds.
Balancing the need to get crops planted and have timely herbicide applications will likely be a significant challenge this spring. What may seem like a small delay in herbicide application to finish planting can easily turn into a weed management disaster if crops emerge before residual herbicides are applied.
Corn grown following alfalfa stands that are 2 years and older (and contained at least 50% alfalfa) require no nitrogen (N) fertilizer on many soils. Red clover N credits are less than for alfalfa.
After exposing more than 70 million grain amaranth seeds to a soil-based herbicide, researchers were not able to find a single herbicide-resistant mutant. Though preliminary, the findings suggest that the mutation rate in amaranth is very low, and that low-level herbicide application contributes little — if anything — to the onset of new mutations conferring resistance.
The newly discovered natural molecule could be as effective as Roundup but potentially safe and non-toxic to humans and animals.
February 6, 2019
Chemists and microbiologists at Tübingen University in Germany have discovered a sugar molecule that inhibits the growth of plants and microorganisms and appears to be harmless to human cells. Could this be an alternative to controversial glyphosate?
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