Soil-applied residual herbicide options for soybeans
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:08:13 -0800

To assist in velvetleaf control, the Valor-based and First Rate-based herbicides (Valor SX, Valor XLT, Gangster, Authority First, and Sonic) are some of the most effective preplant and preemergence herbicides you can use. Cocklebur.

COLUMN: How to treat the weed invasion
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:41:49 -0800

They must have missed my news article in the fall reminding them to put out their pre - emergence herbicide . Or they always wanted to take the Master Gardener Class, but they just have not had time. Thank goodness that there are about 1400 Master ...

St. Augustine turf in Texas faces several different problems in different seasons
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:21:17 -0800

Your only control will be to apply a pre - emergent herbicide such as Dimension, Balan or Halts in early September. You could also make a second pass over the lawn with a Gallery pre-emergent at that same time to prevent germination of the broad-leafed ...

California Crop Weather: fruit growers await rain
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:16:53 -0800

California fruit growers waited for rain - very few pre - emergent and dormant sprays were observed due to the lack of moisture. Pre - emergent spray, orchard removal, planting, and pruning continued in nut orchards. The California Crop Weather report from ...

Conservation Grade oats provide dual benefits
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:15:25 -0800

He says Conservation Grade or not, herbicide options for winter oats are pretty much limited to Hurricane (diflufenican) as a pre - emergence application in the autumn, followed by a post- emergence spray of Lexus Class (carfentrazone + flupyrsulfuron), ...

Dry weather impacts herbicide breakdown
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:55:28 -0800

Dry soils may still be holding residue from last year's herbicide applications, creating problems for those switching crops this year. "Normally every herbicide label that has soil activity it can be that it has pre - emergent activity on weeds or what ...

Syngenta funds computer model to put Palmer amaranth in crosshairs
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:48:47 -0800

Plant into clean fields following tillage or use herbicides like Gramoxone to burndown weeds. Apply a preplant or pre - emergence residual herbicide like Boundary or Prefix in soybean to prevent weed emergence . Overlap an early post- emergence residual ...

February's to-do list begins in the garden
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:00:59 -0800

If you have had problems with crabgrass, now is the time to apply a crabgrass preventer or pre - emergent herbicide . Pre - emergent herbicides are most efficient if applied before the ground temperature reaches 68 degrees, which usually occurs in late ...

Take care of your yard month by month
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:07:34 -0800

You can apply herbicides to kill any winter weeds. Post-emergent herbicides for broadleaved weeds include 2-4, D, Atrazine, dicambra and mecoprop. February: Water as needed. In the later part of the month, apply a pre - emergent herbicide to stop spring ...

Early spring bulbs, controlling crabgrass & ... cohabitation?
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:46:28 -0800

When those products do appear, look for packaged corn gluten meal that specifies it's a pre - emergent herbicide on the label (don't use cheap animal feed -- it might not have pre-emergent ability). Apply 10 to 20 pounds per thousand square feet of your ...

Monsanto's CEO Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:20:24 -0800

Finally, we expect the fourth quarter to still be a loss, but with the emergence of the Latin American business, we should see an increasing contribution from Seeds and Genomics over time. But for 2012, the shift of the fourth quarter cotton revenue ...

University Studies Support Benefits of Adding Holganix to Turf Maintenance Routine
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:19:04 -0800

Recent studies at three universities have confirmed the benefits of Holganix in regard to fertility, pre - emergent weed control and post- emergent weed control. A North Carolina State University study showed that Holganix reduced the amount of methylene ...

Weekly Cotton Review
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:26:06 -0800

When the wind calmed, producers diligently tilled fields and applied pre - emergent herbicide with spray rigs. Producer prior crop year. The remaining gins finalized operations for the season. Some late-harvested samples arrived at the Lubbock and Lamesa ...

Cotton farmers have weed management options
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:15:56 -0800

Each of the industry partners supply important products to the Roundup Ready PLUS platform including both pre - and post- emergence herbicides . For more information, circle X on the Reader Reply Coupon, or visit www.Roundup Ready PLUS.com.

Pigweed Will Strangle Yields | Early Weed Control a Must for Corn, Soybeans
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:36:30 -0800

Growers need to consider two-pass weed control programs that include residual herbicides at planting for good weed control and to protect yields, he says. For glyphosate-resistant corn, Peterson suggests using a preplant/ pre - emergence herbicide such ...

Herbicide application timing crucial
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:29:59 -0800

A ton of growers seemed to have been rained out of the field during a time we were going four and five weeks without rain to activate preemergence herbicides ! I am not being critical. I have done a lot of spraying in my career, and I missed a lot of ...

Spring benefits from Liberator application
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:57:31 -0800

Flufenacet is widely acknowledged as the most robust pre - emergence active substance for control of black-grass, so the new approval increases the flexibility of timing and sequences available to growers. The changes do not apply to the other major ...

Take advantage of good conditions
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:28:39 -0800

"Populations are higher than this time last year, so to achieve the same control we need to up our game by paying even greater attention to detail when applying post- emergence herbicides . "An additional pressure is that growth has continued underground ...

Weed control update
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:35:55 -0800

Vida (pyraflufen-ethyl) is an inhibitor of the PPO enzyme and a potent contact herbicide that can be applied to soybean and corn as a pre -plant burndown, at planting burndown and after planting burndown but before crop emergence for the control of many ...

Plenty to do in garden during winter months
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:32:42 -0800

A glyphosate product plus a broadleaf herbicide can be used on dormant Bermuda in January or February when temperatures are more than 50 degrees for winter weed control. Place Nantucket pine tip moth pheromone traps by March 1. Pre - emergent crabgrass ...