04/11/2012 11:56:34 AM
If it is hot and humid leading up to the R3 stage of soybean growth, then frogeye leaf spot could become a major problem in soybean fields. The severity of the disease and the area of infection seems to be increasing, and resistance to strobilurin fungicides is becoming a factor, too. ...
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03/13/2012 2:36:42 PM
The potential profit from corn production has encouraged more continuous corn acres during the past five years, and to a degree, the crop that grows waist-high quite early in the growing season can hide some herbicide-resistant weeds. ...
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02/10/2012 2:19:39 PM
The message is being heard loud and clear by a large percentage of corn growers that early-season weed competition reduces end-of-season yield. ...
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12/13/2011 3:31:05 PM
Innovative products coming from crop protection companies today definitely are not the same type of products that were being developed 10 years ago. ...
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11/11/2011 10:34:07 AM
Yield loss from nematodes is off most farmers’ radar. It was only in the past couple years that university and Extension specialists began stressing nematode injury to corn. Additionally, soybean companies introduced cyst nematode-resistant varieties several years ago, which gave farmers confidence that they were adequately controlling cyst nematode damage. ...
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10/02/2011 10:40:00 AM
Seeing is believing when it comes to weed management failure, but farmers who haven’t seen the problems of glyphosate-resistant weeds in the south aren’t easily convinced that their fields could become eight-foot tall forests of waterhemp, giant ragweed and marestail.
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09/01/2011 9:35:00 AM
The use of a pre-emergence herbicide in weed control for corn production has received new emphasis in the past couple years for two main reasons—glyphosate-resistant weeds and the introduction of new herbicides that can actually provide one-pass season-long weed control. ...
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08/08/2011 10:30:42 AM
More and more corn growers around Pratt, Kan., are making a fungicide application to their corn, said Vernon Flowers, an agronomist with Crop Quest. ...
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07/15/2011 1:30:00 PM
Delayed planting might lower soybean yields, but it isn’t likely to affect the timing or need for insecticide and fungicide applications for maintaining plant health late into the growing season and helping soybean cultivars reach their yield potential.
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05/13/2011 9:17:33 AM
In Missouri and Arkansas, a common burndown recommendation has been the old Gramoxone, but during the past two years, use of Ignite has become common. The planting of LibertyLink soybeans allows the application of Ignite over the top of the soybean plants during the growing season. ...
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04/15/2011 1:15:42 PM
The trend is toward low-use-rate crop protection products that are not too "concentrated" to be difficult for measuring and handling in field operations. ...
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03/15/2011 9:57:06 AM
Putting a fungicide in the sprayer tank when a glyphosate herbicide application is being made at V5 growth stage of corn is set to explode in 2011. ...
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