VIDEO: Avoiding drift when spraying dicamba on Xtend soybeans

Crop Diagnostic School: Terry Buss with Manitoba Agriculture offers some advice for producers

By Allan Dawson
Reporter

Reading Time: < 1 minute

Published: July 7, 2017
Crops, Oilseeds

Tips to avoid drift when applying dicamba to Roundup Ready 2 Xtend Soybeans were part of the 2017 Crop Diagnostic School at the University of Manitoba’s Carman research station on July 5. Terry Buss, Manitoba Agriculture’s Farm Production Extension Specialist for Pulses, spoke with Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson about what steps producers should take before spraying dicamba and shows the effect dicamba drift can have on non-Xtend soybeans.

Video editing by Greg Berg, online editor.

About the author

Allan Dawson

Reporter

Allan Dawson is a reporter with the Manitoba Co-operator based near Miami, Man. Covering agriculture since 1980, Dawson has spent most of his career with the Co-operator except for several years with Farmers’ Independent Weekly and before that a Morden-Winkler area radio station.

Allan Dawson's recent articles

Big grain companies want big changes at Canada’s biggest port 4 days ago
Insurance coverage up, costs down February 18, 2021
Manitoba Crop Alliance’s resolution process questioned February 18, 2021