Practical Tips

Prairie farmers have about a six-week window between early September and mid-October to address two important weed control opportunities, says Neil Harker, an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada weed scientist based at Lacombe, Alta. With more producers growing Roundup Ready crop varieties, there hasn’t been as much interest in recent years in pre-harvest weed control treatments, […] Read more

You have two opportunities to apply a fall burndown herbicide: pre-harvest and post-harvest. A pre-harvest application is more often used as a harvest aid. A glyphosate treatment in early September can help dry down green annual weeds that can affect harvest operations, says Bill Hamman, a senior agri-coach with the Agri-Trend Agrology network, based in […] Read more

Follow label recommendations, do your own “jar test,” apply products at your own risk, and call the chemical companies for any advice they might have. Those are about the four main pieces of advice for farmers thinking about tank mixing herbicides and fungicides for a one pass application this year. Not a lot of research […] Read more

With higher grain prices it takes fewer insects and lower levels of feeding to trigger an economic pay-off for spraying. Generally these economic thresholds are lower today than they were just a couple years ago, says Scott Hartley, insect management specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture in Regina. He points to lygus bug as an example. Existing […] Read more