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The right order By: Gil Gullickson 03/20/2013 @ 4:10pm

Mixing pesticides and additives with a proper fit in proper sequence is crucial for top performance. You've likely heard the Las Vegas advertising catch ...

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Spray Nozzle Questions By: Gil Gullickson 05/08/2013 @ 4:05pm

  Wondering what kind of spray nozzles you should use during this spray season? ...

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Seed Armor: 12 seed treatment tips By: Gil Gullickson 05/08/2013 @ 3:50pm

A costume is to a comic book superhero what a baseball is to a bat. After all, who would Iron Man be without his ...

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Why Herbicide Modes and Sites of Action Differ By: Gil Gullickson 05/08/2013 @ 12:37pm

Weed scientists and agronomists frequently intersperse the terms of pesticide modes of action (MOA) and sites of action (SOA). What do they really mean? Although the two are ...

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Weather, pests & diseases By: Dave Mowitz 04/08/2013 @ 9:34am

Midwest farmers woke up to some unusually unwelcome guests last summer in the form of spider mites. More commonly found in Western soybean and grain sorghum fields, spider mite populations suddenly exploded ...

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Tool helps prevent pesticide drift damage By: Jeff Caldwell 03/19/2013 @ 7:56am

Row crops and specialty crops like fruit, vegetables, bees and organic field crops aren't always the best neighbors. Officials at the University of Nebraska have developed a web-based tool to make the 2 ...

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Talk to your chemical dealer. Now By: Gil Gullickson 03/13/2013 @ 10:19am

If you haven’t nailed down your herbicide supplies for 2013, talk to your chemical dealer. Come spring, there may be tight supplies of certain chemicals.That’s particularly true for soybean preemergence ...

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Reasons for and against preemergence herbicides By: Gene Johnston 02/14/2013 @ 2:28pm

Jeff Gunsolus knows you'd rather avoid the move to more preplant and preemergence herbicides. He's the University of Minnesota Extension weed specialist, and he even understands your reasons for not ...

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