• By Ryan McGeeney • There are some things that, even when you know it’s coming, no one’s happy when it gets here. Tom Barber, Extension weed scientist for the …
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Corteva launches Kyber, a 3-way herbicide premix
Corteva Agriscience recently launched Kyber herbicide, a three-way liquid premix for soybeans, for the 2021 season. The preemergence soybean herbicide has three effective modes of action: metribuzin, a Weed Science …
Read More »It’s a good time to scout for weeds
• By Larry Steckel • Some have been concerned about losing dicamba due to court or Environmental Protection Agency rulings. Everyone should be more concerned about losing dicamba and 2,4-D …
Read More »Stewardship grows more important with dicamba-resistant pigweed
• By Larry Steckel • Has Palmer amaranth evolved dicamba resistance in Tennessee? Results from some of the greenhouse experiments this winter and spring as well as in field research …
Read More »Strategies for Palmer amaranth, junglerice and goosegrass escapes in Xtend, Enlist crops
• By Larry Steckel • Calls continue from some folks frustrated with goosegrass, junglerice and Palmer amaranth escapes after a dicamba + glyphosate application. A large reason for the frustration …
Read More »Palmer amaranth control with all the uncertainty around dicamba
• By Larry Steckel • As most know by now, on June 3 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated the labels for XtendiMax, FeXapan and Engenia. …
Read More »Results of the 2019 UT Palmer amaranth dicamba screening
• By Larry Steckel • In 2019, we ran calls on about 40 fields where producers were disappointed with their Palmer amaranth control from applications of Engenia or XtendiMax. We …
Read More »Burndown applications: Getting late early!
• By Larry Steckel • Rain, rain, rain! We are behind the burndown pace of most Tennessee springs where at least some would have burndown applications applied by this time. …
Read More »BASF, AGCO collaborate on ‘Operation Weed Eradication’
BASF and equipment manufacturer AGCO plan to join forces on BASF’s Operation Weed Eradication initiative. The collaboration will provide farmers with agronomic expertise to help promote best practices for on-farm …
Read More »BASF launches weed ‘eradication’ initiative
• By Vicky Boyd, Editor • BASF recently launched an industrywide initiative – “Operation Weed Eradication” – that challenges growers and others within agriculture to take a zero-tolerance approach to …
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