herbicides Archives - Page 3 of 18

Justin Prickel demonstrates the WeedSeeker 2 system’s ability to detect a weed during Agco’s 2024 Tech Day event near Salina, Kansas in June. PTx Trimble is now part of a joint venture between Trimble and Agco.

WeedSeeker 2 offers spot-spraying retrofit for existing sprayers

The green-on-brown system could reduce herbicide use in spring and fall applications

By Scott Garvey December 11, 2024

The three current green-on-green spot spray systems on the market now are only capable of functioning in corn, soybean and cotton crops. For most Prairie producers, that doesn’t fit their operations very well. A green-on-brown system, however, could offer significant reductions in herbicide use during pre-seeding and post-harvest burndowns. PTx Trimble’s WeedSeeker 2 system offers […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Cash-strapped US farmers switch to generic crop chemicals, in blow to big manufacturers

By Heather Schlitz, P.J. Huffstutter, Reuters November 14, 2024

U.S. farmers struggling with slumping incomes and depressed grain prices have been switching to cheaper generic pesticides and fungicides as they plan for spring planting next year, which market analysts said could hit the bottom lines of agrichemical companies like Bayer.

Canola, Guides, Soybean Production Guide, Soybeans

How to keep last year’s canola out of your beans

If any good herbicide options are off the table, canola will compete well against soybeans

By Miranda Leybourne September 16, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Fighting off volunteer canola in your soybean crop begins with added effort to keep your non-volunteer canola from escaping the back of the combine the year before. While there’s already been a lot of work done on the matters of volunteer canola issues and canola harvest loss, recent research from the University […] Read more

Sethoxydim and chlorothalonil, previously on the annual Keep It Clean product advisory list, have not reappeared there for 2024.

Crops, Features

Higher-risk list drops two ag chemicals

Keep It Clean advisory gauges crop products by export market risk

By Don Norman September 3, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — A 2024 product advisory from Keep it Clean is missing two names previously featured on a list of high-risk crop protection products. Keep it Clean is a joint initiative of the Canola Council of Canada, Cereals Canada, Pulse Canada and the Prairie Oat Growers Association. The group releases an annual product advisory […] Read more

Cereals, Crops

VIDEO: Herbicide alternatives to glyphosate studied

By Grainews Staff August 23, 2024

With glyphosate coming up against weed resistance – and outright bans as a herbicide in some countries – there’s likely a time on the horizon where it won’t be a crop grower’s ‘go-to’ herbicide for weed control. So, what other herbicide options are on the market that could help fill the gap? At this year’s […] Read more

News, Spring Wheat

Herbicide approved for industrial use by drone

By Mary MacArthur July 17, 2024

Canada’s Pest Management Review Agency approved Garlon XRT herbicide, the first industrial vegetation product with drone application on the label.

Bayer’s Ashley Smith says Huskie PRE “fills that critical gap” for cereal growers trying to control resistant weeds in the West.

Cereals, Crops

Bayer offers up new herbicide combo to dog resistant weeds early

By Dave Bedard July 16, 2024

Bayer launches Huskie, a new herbicide blend.

Features, Pulses

Kochia tumbling into Prairie pulse crops

Scouting — and testing for herbicide resistance — will be important this spring

By Becky Zimmer May 31, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Concerns about the spread of kochia are growing for Saskatchewan’s pulse producers. Michael Brown, agronomy manager for Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, and Martin Carr, agronomy manager for WinField United, have seen the pesky tumbleweed spread throughout Saskatchewan, Alberta and the United States. The weed is resistant to some herbicides, among them Groups 4, […] Read more

Cereals Production Guide, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Broadleaf herbicide formulations set for cereal crops

Corteva, Adama launch new combination products

By Dave Bedard May 28, 2024

A combo of Group 4 and 2 actives is Corteva Agriscience’s latest entry for spring and winter wheat and barley growers in the Prairies’ Black and Grey soil zones to use against broadleaf weeds. Extinguish XL, launched in mid-March, is billed as a “pre-formulated, all-in-one application that delivers control of tough weeds like cleavers, dandelion, […] Read more

Your fearless columnist tosses the cell for electrical conductivity (EC) measurement into the Montreal River at Saskatchewan Highway 2 in July 2005. Results are recorded in a notebook and all is carried in a briefcase. I have notebooks like that all the way back to 1982. At this location, water EC is 260 uS/cm. In the north, water is mostly low EC; the standard for comparison is the South Saskatchewan River system that runs through Saskatoon, with an EC of about 450 uS/cm at 25 C.

Columns

Water chemistry: a Coles Notes version

Soils & Crops: Conductivity and hardness of water samples show what you can use it for

By Les Henry May 21, 2024

First of all: readers who have Henry’s Handbook of Soil and Water can check out pages 124-125 for a detailed discussion of water chemistry, complete with calculations. Water is considered to be the universal solvent because it is capable of dissolving more substances than any other liquid. Therefore, one of the first things we might […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle markets up ahead of report

U.S. grains: Soybean futures fall after Trump-Xi call

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Western Canadian bids slightly decline

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