Weed Management: Wet Year = Weed Control Challenges
What to do when Mother Nature messes up your soybean weed control program … In spite of the most modern technology and best high-yield [...]
Weed Management: Water-hemp Popping Up
Water-hemp is becoming a real headache as a weed. Drive around the countryside in August, regardless of what state you’re in, and you can [...]
Agronomy: Biotic Stresses Were Minimal in Soybeans
Seems insect and disease pressure were very minimal in soybeans in 2015. Soybeans are ripening rapidly. And while you may see the occasional green [...]
How to Handle Weed Escapes
I have a lot of broadleaf weed escapes in my soybeans. The question that I have is will there be a soybean yield loss [...]
How to Handle Weed Escapes
I have a lot of broadleaf weed escapes in my soybeans. The question that I have is will there be a soybean yield loss [...]
Desperate times lead to long lasting mistakes
After 60 to 70 day high rainfall, farmers in many area were significantly delayed in getting back into the field to spray soybeans. Even [...]
Managing Mid Season Weeds in Soybeans
Soybeans flowering is in full swing in many areas, which marks the tail end of when soybean herbicides can be applied. It is getting [...]
Late season herbicide applications
Under any sort of normal conditions we would have been done spraying herbicides long before July 10. But delayed planting, replanting and a limited [...]
Tall Weeds are Challenging
Options for controlling large weeds in soybeans … Heavy and frequent rainfall throughout the month of June has made timely postemergence weed control in [...]
2015 was the year to put down PREs
This was the year that not using residual herbicide at planting shows. Some farmers got the seed in the ground, but either did not [...]
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