Reading Time: 4 minutes If you’ve been focusing mainly on the CPWC, it may be time to switch strategy and add an “s.” CPWC — the critical period for weed control — is the period of growth during which a crop must remain weed-free to prevent yield loss. Suppressing weeds in that period is the objective behind most control […] Read more
Season-long weed control strategies
Don’t only focus on spraying the young ones – also target the escapes before they get a chance to reproduce
Feeling cut off from glyphosate supplies?
The good news is that a shortage opens possibilities for sharpening weed-management skills
Reading Time: 6 minutes As most growers and industry stakeholders have heard by now, reports of shortages of glyphosate and glufosinate have become common since late 2021. They’ve led to bulletins of price increases of 100 to 300 per cent for glyphosate in some areas, and recommendations for how to manage their herbicide programs for 2022. One reason for […] Read more
The latest in herbicides and fungicides for 2022
More active ingredient combinations offered to control resistant weed biotypes
Reading Time: 5 minutes As weeds and diseases continue to evolve and overcome the active ingredients and modes of action of different herbicides and fungicides, the chemical industry must evolve to keep pace. The research and development challenges are considerable — it can take more than 10 years to bring a new product to market, and cost nearly $300 […] Read more
Link broken in glyphosate supply chain, Bayer says
Company provides heads-up on 'force majeure event'
Reading Time: 2 minutes No one is yet using the word ‘shortage’ but farmers may need to get ready for less Roundup temporarily, following a “force majeure” event at a plant supplying an ingredient in the recipe for glyphosate. Bayer, the chemical company whose Roundup brand remains the best known of the glyphosate herbicides, reported as much in an […] Read more
Making flax harvest a little smoother
An IHARF study looks at four pre-harvest options for dry-down and weed control
Reading Time: 4 minutes Harvestability and residue management problems discourage some producers from growing flax, but one solution may be a pre-harvest herbicide or desiccant. Flax stalks are fibrous and tough to cut or chop, says Chris Holzapfel, research manager at the Indian Head Agricultural Research Foundation (IHARF). “Sometimes the stalks can stay green for a long time, which […] Read more
Pest Patrol: Control of phragmites with herbicides and biological agents
#PestPatrol with Mike Cowbrough, OMAFRA
Reading Time: 3 minutes You will have noticed these tall grasses swaying in the wind along roadsides, especially near ditches. They are likely phragmites, also known as common reed (Phragmites australis L.). It is a very widespread weed and one of the world’s most common plant species. In North America, there is a native type of phragmites that has […] Read more
PHOTOS: Pest Patrol: Vetch in corn
#PestPatrol with Mike Cowbrough, OMAFRA
Reading Time: < 1 minute Historically, post-emergent applications of Callisto + Aatrex 480, dicamba (e.g. Engenia/Xtendimax) or Distinct have provided the best top-growth control of tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) in corn. A trial was conducted in 2021 to evaluate tufted vetch control with two newer herbicides, Laudis + Aatrex and Acuron as well as Lontrel XC (clopyralid), a herbicide that […] Read more
Whoops… wrong field
How growers and applicators can work together to prevent spraying errors
Reading Time: 4 minutes The wrong restaurant order. The wrong order for a replacement part. The wrong medical procedure. Mistakes are part of every profession — including crop spraying. During a Telus crop protection webinar in June, participants were asked whether they had ever had an incident of spraying the wrong field or the wrong product. Fifty-three per cent […] Read more
Bayer takes battle over Roundup cancer claims to U.S. Supreme Court
Reading Time: 2 minutes Frankfurt | Reuters — Bayer, trying to contain billions of dollars in legal costs, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court verdict that upheld damages to a customer blaming his cancer on the German group’s glyphosate-based herbicides. Bayer last week lost a third appeal against verdicts that sided with […] Read more
Corteva lifts sales forecast on strong demand for crop protection products, seeds
Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters – Corteva Inc on Thursday raised its net sales forecast for the year after strong demand for crop protection products such as herbicides and insecticides helped the agricultural company beat estimates for the second quarter. Corteva also announced a new $1.5 billion share repurchase program, in addition to a $1 billion buyback announced in 2019, […] Read more
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