Pulse crops, soybeans and sunflowers added to herbicide label.

Making sure your sprayer is ready to go this spring will save valuable time and reduce stress when windows get tight due to weather conditions. Prior to spring field operations, follow these maintenance tips from Iowa State University Extension to prepare for a smooth spring.

Depending on the species, weeds spread with the help of wind, water or by other means, but human factors seem to be the best way to spread weeds from field to field, across a state, from state to state and even from one country to a different one.

Valent U.S.A. has annouced Perpetuo, a group 15 herbicide designed to help keep soybean fields clean to canopy by outlasting the long germination period of tough weeds like waterhemp and Palmer amaranth.

Drift Reduction Technology Corporation, a newly formed company focusing exclusively on improving the safety and accuracy of how crop protection products are applied, introduces a unique spray boom section recirculation system, the SRV2 System. The SRV2 System is easily retrofittable to any new or used field sprayer.

Challenging growing conditions and a lot of prevent plant acreage resulted in vigorous weed seed production for many species in 2019. Check out these tips from The University of Illinois Extension for managing the weed seed bank in 2020.

Now that the 2019 corn and soybean harvest is in full swing, it is not too early to start thinking about and planning for the 2020 growing season as well. For soybean farmers in Iowa, a critically important fall activity that can pay large dividends is soil sampling to determine soybean cyst nematode (SCN) population densities in fields in which soybeans will be grown in 2020.