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10 tips for better crop spraying By: Gene Johnston 01/06/2012 @ 3:44pm

Spraying pesticides on your fields is one of those jobs where the margin for error is pretty narrow, both in terms of accomplishing the mission and protecting ...

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Combat glyphosate-resistant weeds with the old & the new By: Gil Gullickson 08/24/2010 @ 3:32pm

Herbicide resistant weeds -- not just those resistant to glyphosate -- are continuing to wreak weed-management havoc ...

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Halt multiple-mode herbicide resistant weeds By: Gil Gullickson 02/06/2012 @ 10:57am

Herbicide resistance isn't the end of the world. Here are a few ways to combat those weeds.

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6 points to remember about atrazine By: Gil Gullickson 01/30/2012 @ 4:20pm

Atrazine is in a perennial battle between the agricultural chemical industry and environmental groups. Caught in the middle are state and federal regulators and the farmers who actually apply atrazine on corn ...

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Meet the 'Osama bin Laden' of weeds By: Jeff Caldwell 01/24/2012 @ 1:15pm

Get to know Palmer amaranth now, because you may wind up with fields full of it this summer if you're not careful. There are a lot of questions floating around right now about how to manage the weed ...

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Event will target weed herbicide resistance By: Agriculture.com Staff 01/23/2012 @ 10:58am

The National Resesarch Council and Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) are pooling resources to address the growing threat of weed herbicide resistance in a May 10 event at George Washington University in ...

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Start & end early for good weed control By: Gene Johnston 01/06/2012 @ 3:53pm

Jeff Gunsolus speaks with fervor -- and worry -- in his voice. He has watched the advent of total post-emergence weed control programs in corn and soybeans over the last decade, and some of his worst fears are ...

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7 steps to better weed control By: Gil Gullickson 11/01/2011 @ 4:07pm

Getting your crop off to a quick start hinges on your ability to nix weed competition. (After all, you want a nice clean field at the start and not a waterhemp-choked one like this one.) Here are seven factors ...

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