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Red Clover
Crops, Winter Wheat

Pest Patrol: Choosing winter wheat herbicides

Controlling weeds when you've underseeded red clover

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Question: Besides Buctril M (bromoxynil/MCPA), are there other winter wheat herbicides that we can use to control weeds when we have underseeded red clover? The short answer is, “Not really.” There are other broadleaf herbicides including MCPA sodium and MCPA/MCPB that can also be used on winter wheat that is underseeded with red clover, but […] Read more
corn crop with fungicide resistance
Corn, Soybeans

On the sidelines

Disease resistance isn’t a big corn or soybean issue today, but...

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Reading Time: 6 minutes With so many stories about resistance hitting the farm news in the last five years, any new stories about chemical resistance on the farm now tend to generate one of two reactions: disinterest (approaching boredom) or a touch of hypersensitivity. Neither is the best reaction, especially with all the new learnings about the possibilities of […] Read more
nipplewort weed
Crops

Pest Patrol: controlling nipplewort

I have nipplewort, and it seems to be very tolerant to herbicides. Any tips for controlling it?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The common name of this weed may seem risqué but understandable. The plant’s milky latex, which is believed to have anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties, was allegedly used in the 16th century to soothe cracking and inflammation of nursing mother’s breasts. Fast-forward to the present day and it’s thought more of as an annoying weed that is […] Read more
Production, Soybeans

Pest Patrol: Weed control update on vetch

Can I do anything to get rid of vetch before seeding soybeans?

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Reading Time: < 1 minute In my last column, I discussed my optimism for vetch control in soybeans using a few different pre-plant burn-down herbicides. Specifically, I had been impressed by some preliminary results when either flumioxazin (found in Valtera, Step-Up, Fierce and Guardian Plus) or saflufenacil (found in Eragon, Integrity and Optill) was mixed with glyphosate and the adjuvant Merge. […] Read more
Thinkstock
Crops, Production, Soybeans

Fine tuning for weeds

With more resistance, it’s time to be sure 
we’re using the right words the right way

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Reading Time: 4 minutes In Ontario alone, farmers are now facing three different weeds with resistance to glyphosate, and a considerably longer list of those that are resistant to Group 2 chemistries. No one is blaming farmers, or saying today’s farmers aren’t as sharp as their parents. After all, today’s farmers have had to learn about new pests, new […] Read more
images of canola, potato, wheat, and lentils
Production

Abundant choices

There’s no shortage of crop protection choices for just about any problem a grower might face in the 2014 season, including a number of new options registered in time for this spring

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Reading Time: 4 minutes We are a fortunate lot, here in Canada, when it comes to controlling pests in our crops. We have access to literally hundreds of products which can be used alone or in tank mixes to control just about any weed, insect, or disease we might encounter in any crop we are likely to grow. In […] Read more
spray applicator in a canola field
Production

Unsilent spring

The funny thing about farm chemicals is they’re a lot less scary when you learn a bit about them — and some of the cautionary tales from the past have actually shown us how to use them more safely and effectively

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Back in the early ’80s, when I was a science student, I took a pollution geography course and wrote a term paper on pesticides. I read Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the book credited with birthing the modern environmental movement, and dug through the library for all available references. I wound up getting a pretty good […] Read more
quackgrass
Production

We’ve come a long way

Weed control evolution has occurred incrementally over the years, but looking back at the sweep of history shows some very impressive gains

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Some might remember the 1970s cigarette commercial featuring the slogan, “You’ve come a long way, baby.” Well, as I think back to how we controlled pests in the early days of my career, no slogan could be more appropriate for our pesticide industry. I was recently reminiscing with my brother Bill, who has been in […] Read more
DuPont PrecisionPac herbicide mixing system
Crops, Production

Mix and match

With wider chemical choices coming, the PrecisionPac system might be worth a second look

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Imagine a world where you could roll into your local farm supply outlet and head to the back of the room where a vending machine sits. There, you’d plug in some basic data. The machine would ask what you’re planting, how many acres, what major weed species are present and what you’ll be rotating to […] Read more
Redroot pigweed
Crops, Production

New era, new tools

Selection pressure and an ever-increasing list of glyphosate-resistant weeds mean we’re in a new era. Herbicide researchers are reacting by tapping the biomedical world for new tools for a new challenge

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Reading Time: 6 minutes When most people think of 1973, they think of world changing events such as the Arab oil embargo and the end of the Vietnam War. What they don’t think of is the introduction of a world-beating pesticide that not only changed the way that farmers would come to think about weeds, but also fundamentally altered […] Read more

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