Weed Control

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...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • A push for something better entails a willingness to change. And change opens the door to better-than-expected success. That’s what happened for producer Stephen Dozier, who farms about 3,500 acres of cotton and peanuts in Georgia. Dozier...

⋅ BY ROBERT NATHAN GREGORY ⋅ MSU Extension Service Time is running out to preregister for the 2022 Mississippi State University Row Crop Short Course. The course, scheduled for Dec. 5-7 at the Cotton Mill Conference Center in Starkville, is hosted by...

This Small Part Plays A Big Role In Making A Crop ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ SOUTHEAST EDITOR Nozzles are one of the least expensive parts on a sprayer that has the most effect. The correct nozzle recommendation, along with pressure, volume...

Louis Heckmann and his wife, Debbie, farm 1,100 acres of dryland cotton they rotate with corn and milo in Fort Bend County, Texas. Historically, they grew a high-yielding competitive variety, but in 2020 they decided to try PhytoGen® brand PHY...

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...

Out-of-control weeds are the latest challenge to hit Texas producers among the negative effects related to untimely rains since late spring, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. Rainy weather across the state has created a convergence of...

• 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...

Nufarm Americas Inc. has launched Leopard Herbicide, a premix of two sulfonylureas, for soybeans, field corn and cotton. It contains the active ingredients rimsulfuron and thifensulfuron in a water-dispersible granule formulation. Both are members of the Weed Science Society of...

• By Larry Steckel and Delaney Foster • We have visited fields where growers assumed their Engenia or XtendiMax + glyphosate had controlled Palmer amaranth only to find that many had escaped and are now quite large (Picture 1). The...

• By Larry Steckel and Clay Perkins • There have been several reports last week of multiple glyphosate and/or clethodim applications not controlling barnyardgrass or jungle rice. We really do not know the precise reasons for the lack of control...

• By Ryan McGeeney • Farmers in five counties in southeastern Arkansas suffered more than $200 million in direct losses to major crops after the major flooding and storm event in early June, according to a preliminary estimate by experts...

Cover crops can be an important part of integrated management of weeds in field crops The over-reliance on one form of weed control has resulted in the selection of weeds resistant to herbicides. Glyphosate, a non-selective broad-spectrum herbicide, has been...

• 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...