Marestail can cause significant yield loss in both corn and soybeans. Learn to scout and identify this weed early. Weeds like Palmer amaranth, waterhemp, kochia, and marestail are escalating challenges for High Plains farmers growing corn, soybeans, wheat, and sorghum.

Understanding the Context

Arkansas ... Farm Progress: What’s the secret to preventing marestail regrowth in no-till fields? Be sure to include atrazine for residual control of germinating marestail seedlings. Aside from atrazine and Balance Flexx/Corvus, no other active ingredients provide effective residual control ...

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Sharpen herbicide for corn and soybeans drives burndown three to five times faster than 2, 4-D or glyphosate. Its rapid burndown of broadleaf weeds includes powerful control over difficult-to-manage ... Warmer spring temperatures mean that crops begin to sprout from the ground. However, with these warmer temperatures, crops are not the only things that are greening up; weeds are too. The Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab published pumpkin research in the December issue of HortTechnology, available online now.

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