The world's most widely used weed killer is not responsible for perpetuating Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) in soybeans, research shows.

Environmental Tillage Systems, Inc. (ETS) has added two team members to its growing staff. Scott Opsahl joined the company in January as the Senior Engineer and Naomi Mortensen came on board in April as the Marketing Director. These additions align with ETS' goal of hiring and cultivating talent to continue providing quality products and services to its customers. ETS is not only in the business of building quality

Corn planting progress has been slow to date due to wet soil conditions and cool soil temperatures.

Along with the cool spring and slow start to the growing season, there have been many days with windy conditions. Keep in mind the objectives of any spray application are to balance productivity, efficacy, and prevent off-site movement of pesticides. In some situations, this can be easier said than done. Below are several things to consider to help reduce particle (not necessarily, vapor) spray drift.

We've received a few calls lately about options for killing out poor stands of corn and planting a new stand back into those areas. Most of these calls have to do with killing a Roundup Ready/LibertyLink corn variety and planting back into these fields.

Being able to predict when a field of corn will reach particular leaf stages can be useful for scheduling post-emergence applications of certain herbicides and sidedress N fertilizer, especially if your farming operation is so large that regular field inspections are difficult to work into your busy schedule. Leaf stage can be predicted on the basis of heat unit accumulation (aka growing degree days) from planting to the date in question.

Farm equipment buyers and sellers from around the world are getting ready to converge on Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada for the Canada's Farm Progress Show. Now in its 37th year, CFPS is Canada's largest agricultural technology show and one of the largest dryland technology shows in the world.

For folks growing continuous corn, western corn rootworm is a serious pest that needs regular attention. Most growers in Pennsylvania seem to be aware of the ongoing struggle in the Midwest with populations of western corn rootworm that are resistant to some varieties of Bt corn.

It has been a long cold winter with record low temperatures. This has led to some growers wondering if they still have to worry about plant diseases this growing season.

Planting cereal rye as a cover crop provides numerous short- and long-term agronomic and environmental benefits. Although inconsistent, under certain situations the yield of corn planted into the residue of a rye cover crop may be reduced.