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Ohio State University research on marestail management has shown that a systems approach, involving a combination of herbicide applications, provides the most consistently effective control and reduction in marestail population over time. Given that essentially all of the marestail populations in...

Minnesota farmer Gene Stengel and his sons Kevin and Rob will plant a 20% insect refuge this spring, as usual. Although “refuge-in-the-bag” blends of Bt and non-Bt seeds are proving popular with farmers – and could predominate in coming years – many growers will still plant structured non-Bt refuges...

Come end of June, Minnesota grower Norm Giese will be planting again, just like he has done for the last 13 years, successfully. The Appleton, MN, farmer and his son and son-in-law grow 5,000 acres of corn, and dry edible beans. They also grow 350 acres of fresh peas for a local processor...

Valent anticipates that Fierce, a pre-emergence herbicide (pyroxasulfone and flumioxazin) for use in reduced-tillage field corn and , will receive registration for corn in time for the 2012 season. Fierce has shown residual control of weeds including -, ALS- and triazine-resistant Palmer amaranth,...

Market watchers often debate how the commodity markets must "buy" corn or soybean acres in any given year. In fact, price relationships may shift some last-minute acreage plans. But when you take into consideration all that goes into production, yield is the rotation trump card...

As a farm journalist who has logged vast windshield time on Corn Belt blue highways every summer for umpteen years, something struck me different looking across bean fields in 2011. In a word: statues. Of tall, random and proud water hemp...

Your herbicide plans for 2012 should not include use alone, because the weeds are winning. Weed scientists continue to see ’s effectiveness falter...

You know the villains – waterhemp, marestail, pigweed and other pilferers of water and soil nutrients. They’re the plants you spend $50/acre to kill, yet zestfully return, especially if these prolific weed-seed producers like waterhemp are allowed to spread 300,000 herbicide-resistant seeds per...

Dallas Peterson’s weed-research plots rival the rankest weed-ravaged fields anywhere. And head-high pigweed offers examples of what can happen to corn and fields if the yield-punishing plants aren’t controlled early...

Getting the most from a bag of has become an obsession for Tom Tullis, farmer from Champaign, OH. And he’ll try anything to get that extra bu./acre. In the past five years, Tullis says he’s defoliated beans, experimented with seeding rates and even bush-hogged plants after first bloom. He’s also...