Weed Control - Crop Quest

Early Action, Better Yields

Krissy Lampe — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:02:52 +0000

Attaining good weed control is essential for maintaining maximum yield potential. Weeds are one of the biggest robbers of yield that we have. Left unchecked, weed competition can cause upwards of 50-80% yield reduction. Even getting 90-95% control of weeds can still cause up to 15% yield reduction, especially if weeds are present in the [...]

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Burndown Herbicides – Effective Weed Control

Krissy Lampe — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:19:21 +0000

The key to a successful weed control program starts with a pre-season herbicide treatment. The mantra of ‘start clean, stay clean’ highlights the importance of early intervention for producers aiming for optimal weed management throughout the season. As we transition into spring, producers are actively implementing their "burndown" applications, recognizing the critical role they play [...]

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Late Season Perennial Weed Control

Tracy Smith — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:59:23 +0000

Producers struggle with a few troublesome perennial weeds, such as johnsongrass and bindweed. These weeds typically emerge in the same spots year after year due to their resilient root systems or rhizomes. Some herbicides are reasonably effective on these weeds during the growing season. But typically, these weeds are tough to completely eradicate from a [...]

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Start Clean, Stay Clean. The Key to Successful Season-Long Weed Control

Corry Israel — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 22:58:17 +0000

The time of year is rapidly approaching when producers should start thinking about protecting their farms with burndown and pre-emerge herbicides. All the moisture received across the High Plains in the last few months will contribute to early weed emergence. The idea of starting clean and staying clean is crucial to a successful farming operation. [...]

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New Dicamba Rules Coming For 2018 Include TRAINING and CERTIFICATION

Tracy Smith — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 10:14:01 +0000

The long-awaited genes that have been bred into soybeans and cotton to allow the use of dicamba over-the-top of these crops got off to a rocky start in 2017. Whether all the cases of ‘off-site’ dicamba damage were truly from the increased use of dicamba during the growing season, the EPA and the states are [...]

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Managing Resistance Requires Multitude of Tools

Tracy Smith — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 08:00:50 +0000

If you are involved in agriculture, you have been inundated with information about resistance management. Most of the conversation is centered around herbicide and insecticide resistance that is occurring due to the ability of plants and insects to adapt over time to repeated applications of a similar active ingredient. Many of the issues we deal [...]

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Burndown Herbicides

Tracy Smith — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 08:00:22 +0000

Herbicides play a major role when it comes to controlling weeds, while protecting the environment. By knowing what to expect from different herbicides, a weed control program can be put in place that meets the goals of each farm, both from an economic as well as an environmental standpoint. There are two broad categories of [...]

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Rotate Your Preplant – Preemerge Corn Herbicide Chemistry For Better Control

Tracy Smith — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 08:00:30 +0000

We all know the importance of mixing different modes of actions in post emerge herbicide programs. One area of corn herbicide management that is easy to neglect is to stay on a consistent rotation of early corn herbicides that are used preplant or preemerge. We are all creatures of habit and resist change. When we [...]

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Making The Most Of Your Herbicides

Tracy Smith — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 08:00:17 +0000

Controlling weeds is becoming a difficult and expensive task. A common assumption made when a group of weeds are not killed by a herbicide application is that the weeds are resistant. While weed herbicide resistance is unfortunately common, other factors can play a role. The weather is a huge variable in farming which directly affects [...]

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Selecting Postemerge Herbicides

Tracy Smith — Sun, 01 May 2016 08:00:41 +0000

As crops, and of course weeds begin to emerge this spring, many producers may not be aware of the process their Crop Quest Agronomist uses to select appropriate herbicides for control of these weeds. There are a multitude of questions that need to be answered before a particular herbicide and timing of application can be [...]

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