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Variable weather makes weeds harder to whack
Canton Daily Ledger
URBANA From flooded spring fields to summer hailstorms and drought, farmers are well aware the weather is changing. It often means spring planting can’t happen on time or has to happen twice to make up for catastrophic losses of young seedlings.
According to a joint study between University of Illinois and USDA-ARS, it also means common pre-emergence herbicides are less effective. With less weed control at the beginning of the season, farmers are forced to rely more heavily on post-emergence herbicides or risk yield loss.
“We re having more variable precipitation, including conditions where folks aren t able to plant because fields are too wet. In those cases, pre-emergence herbicide applications are getting pushed back into a period that is consistently drier,” says Marty Williams, USDA-ARS ecologist, affiliate professor in the Department of Crop Sciences at Illinois, and corresponding author on the study.
What farmers need to know about the new label for dicamba rfdtv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rfdtv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gil Gullickson
This year is the first year of a new label for XtendiMax, Engenia, and Tavium used in dicamba-tolerant cotton and soybeans. The registrations approved last October by the Environmental Protection Agency include new and/or additional application restrictions that were not included on previous labels. A few of the changes are those which farmers and applicators may not be aware of and might come as a bit of a surprise, says Aaron Hager, University of Illinois Extension weeds specialist. Although this is not an exhaustive list of label changes, here are some highlights compiled by Hager. The product labels allow applications