2023 OSU Weed Science Field Day

The 2023 OSU Weed Science Field Day will be held on Wednesday July 12th at the Western Ag Research Station in South Charleston, OH. Registration starts at 8:30 am followed by a field tour starting at 9:00. Studies can also be viewed…

The Take Action Winter Series is BACK! University weed scientists across the Midwest and the USB Take Action initiative have developed a video series to report the latest in pesticide-resistance management. A new video will be released each Monday to…

Take Action Webinar Series: Weed & Herbicide Management

The USB Take Action initiative and university weed scientists across the region have developed a free webinar series covering various weed and herbicide management issues. Each webinar will have two weed scientists giving presentations about 15 minutes long, and there…

If you have been directed here from the recent C.O.R.N. article about this issue, below are the statements/positions of Bayer and BASF about legality of glyphosate on the LL-GT27 soybean. Bayer With the recent approval of LibertyLink GT27 soybeans for…

In case you wondered about the new dicamba label.....

Rather than writing much here, best thing we can do is direct readers to this article.

The new labels for Engenia, XtendiMax, and FeXapan have many new precautions that applicators need to be aware of.  An additional requirement is that anyone applying these products must attend an annual dicamba or group 4 herbicide-specific training.  Details are still…

Big Business Behaving Badly

In case you were not up to date on the whole dicamba thing click here.

And we were worried about dicamba.....
Marestail still #1 in soybeans

Results of the 2016 Weed Science Society of America weed survey for broadleaf crops, fruits and vegetables are in.  Across all crops, Palmer amaranth was the most troublesome and difficult to control weed, and lambsquarters was most common.  In soybeans,…

Bunch of odds and ends

Reminders about some recent videos we made, etc.  First, corn replanting is in full swing in areas due to the effect of previous cold and wet weather on stands.  It’s important to kill the first stand of corn to make…