The EPA has approved revised Engenia®, Xtendimax® and FeXapan® herbicide labels for 2018. The main changes are listed below. Some details will have to be worked out such as what the auxin-specific training might entail that would be different from what many of you took this past winter. Continue reading
The question going into this fall is how much yield loss have the dicamba injured soybeans sustained? As with every concern with this dicamba drift mess, the answers are hard to get and then the results are often a mixed bag. Continue reading
PPO-resistant Palmer amaranth has required growers to adapt to an integrated weed control approach with the assistance of the new technologies available. The adoption of cover crops in the state has shown to be a major tool for successfully controlling Palmer amaranth. Furthermore, Palmer amaranth infested fields in Tennessee are cleaner this year compared to the last decade. Continue reading
Dicamba drift calls had died down for a short spell but really blew back up in the last few days (7/28 to 8/3). Clearly a good bit of late planted Xtend soybeans were sprayed with a dicamba product about 14 days ago. Continue reading
I posed this question to my colleague Dr. Tom Mueller after receiving a lab report from a tissue sample submitted from a field that had suspected dicamba injury. I wish to thank him for his thorough explanation which helps make sense of the report. His response is below: Continue reading
“I can’t keep dicamba in the field” has been a frequent comment I have heard from many frustrated folks who have followed the rules and tried their best not to drift on their neighbors. Continue reading
We clearly have to get a better handle on the dicamba drift issue in this state. In cotton there is no reason to use anything but Liberty now. In soybeans, particularly seed fields, there maybe no choice but to have to use a dicamba product. The following are some best management practices to reduce the potential of off-target wandering of dicamba. Continue reading
There have been a lot of phone calls in the past few days with folks concerned about POST applied herbicide tankmix burn on cotton and soybeans. We see burn from POST applied tankmixtures every spring but the crop response from applications over the past 10 days has been more pronounced. Continue reading