Herbicides
By crop, here are the weeds scientists put in the bull’s-eye for seven grass crops.
The company says a U.S. judge’s rejection of its class-action proposal will have no impact on its commitment to Roundup or Roundup Ready and their availability for farmers and retailers.
By digging through the thousands of data sets, a team at the University of Illinois and ARS uncovered it’s not just climate making weed control hard, but late season weed pressure has a devastating impact on corn yield.
Bayer’s Louisiana glyphosate plant is back online, but the glyphosate shortage is industry wide as one Extension weed scientist says growers need to make multiple crop chemistry plans for the next two years.
Corn subjected to heavy rainfall can still deliver a significant yield response to a nitrogen application -- in some cases, up to 60 bu.
EPA and NASDA ring-in on the current dicamba evaluation process while continuing to wave their yellow “caution” flag.
As ag retailers continue to navigate a turbulent supply scenario for planting season, FBN says their glyphosate supplies are in a “comfortable” position. The company explains how they were able to secure supplies.
Glyphosate was already in short supply heading into the 2022 planting season, but another black swan event is putting an even tighter squeeze on supplies.
This balance of supply and demand was difficult, resulted in a learning curve, but also brought strong weed control results and strengthened farmers’ approaches to weed resistance.
For the past three years the team at Solinftec has been working on advancing its solar powered autonomy platform.
Three dozen cameras evenly spaced across a 120’ boom use artificial intelligence to target and spray weeds, cutting herbicide use by up to 80% and improving weed control
Sprayers are being outfitted with new products and configured in new ways to make applications quicker, cheaper and more precise.
This three-way premix features S-metolachlor, metribuzin and cloransulam-methyl. The formulation controls 70 small- and large-seeded broadleaf weeds and grasses, including Palmer amaranth, waterhemp and lambsquarters.
Researchers analyzed several factors leading to soybean yield loss in a 26-year herbicide study conducted across the state of Illinois.
In order to get ahead of weeds, you need to know what weeds you’re up against. There are several weed identifying apps available, but how accurate are they? Researchers at MSU have the answers.
Maverick features three modes of action and application flexibility to help growers address tough weeds, including waterhemp, Palmer amaranth and marestail, and annual grasses.
Reducing herbicide usage by 97% in pre-emergence and 88% in post-emergence spraying, Greeneye Technology might be the ‘next-big-thing’ in sprayer technology.
The final products for the US market will be produced at the company’s North America facility in Saint Joseph, MO using the existing large-scale capacities for both ester and amine formulations of 2,4-D.
EPA said there was little risk to most people from exposure to dicamba, though it identified six additional instances in which workers handling the herbicide should wear a respirator along with the required outfit.
NCGA sees the new labeling requirements as a way to “impose arduous new restrictions and mitigation measures on the herbicide, limiting how much of the product farmers use.”
An Oregon case marks the latest in a long line of lawsuits the company has had to contend with in the past few years. Most of the 138,000 cases have come out of the U.S. residential lawn and garden marketplace.
Bayer has argued that the cancer claims over Roundup and glyphosate go against sound science and product clearance from the EPA.
The Reviton label expansion will increase aerial spring burndown options and soybean plant back intervals which have been troublesome for many growers.
“In areas of resistance, we are giving extra control to help farmers have a new tool to control those resistant weeds,” says Tom Wood, Belchim USA. “It’ll get the weeds you won’t have control of otherwise.”
A non-selective contact herbicide, Harpe targets multiple sites of action including plant cell and organelle membranes. The products have multiple modes of action.
The recent action means Enlist One and Enlist Duo can now be used in all counties of Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.
Experts say using less herbicide, or cutting the rate of product per acre, isn’t a good solution.
In 2021, the agency reported it received 3,500 dicamba-related incident reports, including approximately 711 incidents in Minnesota and 528 incidents in Iowa.
On March 2, Bayer announced it had received EPA registrations on two crop science products.
In the readers’ choice online voting, our audience has named Syngenta’s Acuron GT herbicide as the 2021 New Product of the Year.