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Where Fall Herbicide Applications May Fit
Gil Gullickson
11/12/2012 @ 4:20pm
Crops Technology Editor for Successful Farming magazine/Agriculture.com
If
your fields this fall look like a salad bowl of weeds, you may be considering a
fall herbicide application. That’s particularly true if your fields were overrun
by marestail this year.
“We really lost the battle on marestail this year,”
says Bill Johnson, Purdue University Extension weeds specialist. “We have had
glyphosate-resistant marestail for a decade, but this year was a complete train
wreck.”
Marestail is a versatile weed, as it can double both
as a fall and summer annual. That was the case for the marestail that infested
Indiana fields during the 2012 growing season.
