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Can You Tame Superweeds? | Farmers Should Rewrite Weed-Control Programs Due To Herbicide Resistance
< p > 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
Plans for tillage | Farm Industry News Blog
There are still some corn and soybeans here and there in northwest Ohio. In the last couple weeks there have been three or four days that the combines were able to run and that whittled down the harvest quite a bit. Very little plowing has been done in the last two weeks.
Tillage Event - Farmer Jake's Blog - FWispace
On Friday 10th December I was invited by UAP to go and listen to a talk all about Direct Drilling and Minimum Tillage. The talk was being give by Steve
Very Dry Tillage Conditions and Corn Harvest Progress | CSD Blogs and Opinions
Completing fall tillage has been a struggle for farm operators in many areas of southern and western Minnesota, due to the extremely dry topsoil conditions. Most of southwest and south-central Minnesota is now listed as being in a moderate drought, with nearly the entire state categorized at
East: Dry weather continues to frustrate
A lack of rainfall is continuing to cause problems, especially for later drilled and second wheats. Earlier drilled cereals have generally established well and are at early tillering stages. Dry seed-beds have resulted in variable performance from residual herbicides and in some places SU...
West: Dry seed-beds causing concern
Drilling has carried on apace in the four weeks since my last entry. Concern is now mounting over dry seed-beds which are bound to hinder pre-emergence herbicide activity. Almost incessant wind has made spraying difficult and the strong aroma of...
East: Welcome rain evens crop establishment
Recent rain has evened up cereal establishment and oilseed rape growth. Where cereal drilling was stalled due to dry and hard soil conditions, the moisture has finally allowed cultivation of reasonable seed-beds. Moist, friable seed beds are ideal for...
South: Aphids numbers surge in crops
Insects are the big watch out for us here at the moment. Aphid numbers on cereals and oilseed rape are the highest for many years and we're finding the first gout fly eggs on wheat. Leaf miner is making its...
North: Slug pressure low as drilling speeds ahead
Drilling is progressing at a fantastic pace due to settled weather. Good seed-beds are being achieved with the earliest winter wheat crops now at the two- to three-leaf stage. If no insecticide seed dressing has been used, such as Deter,...
East: Stale seed beds less effective this year
We have had a very smooth drilling period with little interference from the weather. I wish the same could be said about the chemical applications.We seem to have had weeks of high winds. The fact that OSR broad-leaved weed sprays...
