With the recent rains and as we proceed through the growing season, there are several issues surrounding weed control and ...

Herbicide expenses have risen 15% to 20% as farmers use multiple modes of action. Treating crops for weeds is important. For example, a single Palmer amaranth plant can cut sorghum yields by 30%, ...

Marestail plants set and disperse seeds from August to October, and up to 91% of fall-emerging marestail seeds can survive the winter, making marestail control in soybeans problematic.⁵ On the ...

New research reveals that insecticides meant to protect crops may actually help weeds survive. Scientists found that insecticide use in corn and soybean fields disrupts natural weed control by ...

Marestail or horseweed (Erigeron canadensis) is a challenging weed to manage in no-till or minimum-till soybeans systems. This weed is classified as a winter annual, but it germinates well into spring ...

When Don Morse began growing cover crops, one of his main goals was to tackle the growing populations of marestail (horseweed) and waterhemp that defied traditional control measures. “I can give ...

There are two species of horsetail/marestail, field (Equisetum arvense) and giant horsetail (E. telmateia), whose tendency to take over patches of ground with their impenetrable stems presents a real ...

Those weeds include Amur Honeysuckle, Canada Thistle, Common Teasel, Cutleaf Teasel, Japanese Knotweed, Johnsongrass, Kudzu, Marestail, Multiflora Rose, Nodding Thistle, Poison Hemlock and Spotted ...

In today’s Almond Matters, brought to you by Valent, fleabane and marestail are likely to be germinating in orchards after the recent rains. Growers that were able to get a preemergent down prior to ...