herbicide resistance

A Mississippi State research team in the university’s Department of Plant and Soil Sciences is using artificial intelligence and automated mechanical technology capabilities to find and control weeds. Cotton Inc. recently funded a study, asking scientists in MSU’s Mississippi Agricultural...

The National Cotton Council-coordinated 2023 Beltwide Cotton Conferences (BWCC) will provide research results and other timely information on topics ranging from dicamba usage to drone optimization with the aim of maximizing the production sector’s efficiency, sustainability and profitability. Who attends...

Every female Palmer amaranth plant can produce over 1 million seeds that may germinate and compete with a cotton crop. One doctoral student is taking on these weeds, which rob farmers through herbicide costs, yield damage or quality losses. Palmer...

• By Adam Russell, Texas A&M AgriLife • Out-of-control weeds related to untimely rains since late spring hit Texas producers, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. Rainy weather across the state created a convergence of problems related to weeds...

• By Larry Steckel • We have visited fields where growers have found Palmer amaranth that escaped an auxin herbicide (Engenia, XtendiMax, Enlist One) application also escaped follow-up glufosinate (Liberty) application (Pictures 1 and 2).   Auxin herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth was documented...

• By Larry Steckel, Clay Perkins and Delaney Foster • Judging from research tests and walking a few farmers’ fields, many of the preemergence-applied herbicides in soybeans and cotton played out about a week or so ago. Timing is everything...

The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture will host the annual Weed Tour on Wednesday, June 16, at the West Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center. The guided tour will feature 60 weed management research tests in corn, soybean and...

• By Stanley Culpepper and Taylor Randell • Research over the past three seasons has confirmed a Georgia population of Palmer amaranth to be resistant to topical applications of PPO herbicides including Reflex, Cobra and Blazer (Figure 1). For cotton and...

• By Daniel Stephenson and Josh Copes • Glyphosate-resistant Italian ryegrass has been an issue in the mid-South for the past 10 to 15 years. In Louisiana, growers have been battling this pest for five to 10 years, and the...

• By Larry Steckel • Some reports have come from folks concerned by the lack of Palmer amaranth response to applications of dicamba plus glyphosate applied in the last 10 days. I expect to get more of these calls as...

• By Larry Steckel • Clearly, after all the struggles in 2019 controlling grass weeds, many are looking to change their weed management program. The most frequent question recently has been on the best preemergent options to more account for...

Bayer has announced a herbicide molecule in Phase 2 of early development that has demonstrated effective control of key resistant grasses in research trials, according to a company news release. At the same time Bayer researchers are working to identify...

Kochia, a kind of tumbleweed, has long been associated with the Texas High Plains, but its abundance is starting to alarm Texas A&M AgriLife officials as regional producers are experiencing challenges controlling the weed as herbicide resistance is mounting. Dr....

In June of this year, Dr. Gaylon Morgan joined the Agricultural & Environment Research Division at Cotton Incorporated. His area of expertise includes weed management, soil health, nutrient research and producer outreach. The addition of Morgan’s knowledge and experience...

• By Vicky Boyd, Managing Editor • BASF recently launched an industrywide initiative – “Operation Weed Eradication” – that challenges growers and others within agriculture to take a zero-tolerance approach to ridding fields of devastating weeds. “As an industry, we’ve talked about...