Jeff Carpenter, with Dupont Crop Protection, spoke with me at TradeTalk to give an update on DuPont’s latest herbicide product, Trivence, and the importance of preventing resistant weeds using residual herbicides. “Farmers are understanding there is an issue with Roundup not controlling the weeds it did 4-5 years ago. For the pigweed species especially (both palmer and waterhemp), as well … Read More
New Soybean Cropping Systems Offer Weed Control
The journal of Weed Technology recently published a study showing the proper application of post emergence herbicides are an important factor in controlling glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth and waterhemp in new soybean cropping systems. Glyphostae-resistant Palmer amaranth has been confirmed to challenge growers in twenty-five states, and glyphostae-resistant waterhemp is present in 16. Soon growers will be offered options combining glyphostae, … Read More
Brent Boyette Getting Some Real Yield with LibertyLink
We often think of weed resistance as being some kind of midwest and south phenomenon but think east U.S. as in North Carolina. Cindy spoke with farmer Brent Boyette for an episode of LibertyLink Real Yield Radio and you can hear what he has to say below. Now, while you’re celebrating some Thanksgiving with the family how about trying the … Read More
Year-Long Weed Management Is A Priority for FMC
At the recent National Association of Farm Broadcasters conference Chuck caught up with Thomas Quade, the Technical Service Manager at FMC Corporation (pictured left) and our sponsor for the event. FMC offers some of the best practices for year-long management of weeds with products like Topguard, Authority, and Anthem Maxx. And according to Quade, its never too early to start … Read More
Bayer Promotes Integrated Weed Management
The current amount of food being destroyed by weeds is enough to feed one billion people, and that could increase as herbicide-resistance increases. That’s why at Bayer CropScience developed an Integrated Weed Management(IWM) strategy to help farmers better control weeds and help prevent resistance. Jason Manz, cereals marketing manager for Bayer CropScience, sat down with AgWired at the 2015 Farm … Read More
Real Growers Tell #RealYield Stories
No matter what kind of year it is, real yield makes all the difference and that is what real farmers who use the LibertyLink system are saying they are getting. We interviewed 200 soybean farmers from North Dakota to Mississippi this summer to find out how their experience with LibertyLink has been – whether they’ve used it since it was … Read More
How Engenia™ Herbicide Works in Cotton
BASF Crop Protection anticipates regulatory approval for Engenia™ herbicide yet later this year, which will provide growers with the most technologically advanced dicamba formulation for control of broadleaf weeds in dicamba-tolerant crops for both soybeans and cotton. “Like all the other dicambas BASF has made in our 50 year history, (Engenia) is a highly effective post-emergent broadleaf weed control tool,” … Read More
Bayer CropScience #SoyExcited about LibertyLink®
During the 2015 Farm Progress Show, Bayer CropScience unveiled a social instant win experience for growers, the LibertyLink® Real Yield Game. Soybean Marketing Manager Malin Westfall is “soy excited” about the new promotion. “It’s really an opportunity for our customers to tell their story,” said Westfall. “We want to hear the great things that the Liberty Link system and Liberty … Read More
FMC Authority and Aim for Fall Application
It’s still summer but not too early to start thinking about fall herbicide applications. David Wheeler with FMC Corporation says with all the resistant weed pressure around the country a fall burndown is more important than ever. “Primarily we use a fall burndown application in soybeans or corn to prevent the early season growth of winter annual weeds that can … Read More
#AgMedia Learn About Overlap System From FMC
Ag journalists had the opportunity to learn more about the Overlap™ System that FMC promotes for weed control during the recent Ag Media Summit. “Overlap is a term that we use for overlapping residual herbicides and we do that in order to manage resistant weed species like tall waterhemp and palmer pigweed, primarily,” said FMC Technical Business Manager David Wheeler … Read More