Weeds

While pre-harvest scouting for diseases and crop staging, keep a look out for weeds. Challenges with timely and effective weed control earlier in the

Always follow labels for rate, timing and pre-harvest intervals (PHI) when applying herbicides. Applications made after the label window can lead to reduced weed

One weed management job for this week is to check fields about a week after spraying to make sure weeds are dying as expected.

Four scenarios with “Yes” or “No” answers on application timing.

Situations…Lots of weeds and they’re growing fast. Spraying at night to dodge heavy winds. Scouting shows escapes of efficacy issues. Tank mix makes a

from the perspectives of herbicide uptake, efficacy and label requirements, night spraying is OK as long as weeds are not under any stress and

With wind delays and pressure to get crops seeded, the weed spraying operation could be bouncing from crop to crop, and from pre-seed burnoff

A few days of summer-like conditions have weeds thriving, taking up nutrients and topsoil moisture. Whether canola is already emerging, seeded but not emerging,

This quiz is like a matching game. Seven photos. Seven choices. See if you can match all 7.

Given the value of early weed control, take full advantage of calm conditions to spray. If it’s too windy (more than 20 km/h), the

What are these weeds? And what would you tank-mix with glyphosate to improve pre-seed burnoff efficacy on these weeds?

Chemical residue can last over the winter and cause crop damage, so you want to give the sprayer a complete pre-season cleaning. Here are