A new generation of herbicide tolerant soybeans is coming soon, according to Bayer.

New Bayer genetics to open up soybean herbicide tolerance

Vyconic trait set offers tolerance to five herbicides and will be integrated with the company’s soybean varieties in coming years

Bayer’s Vyconic soybeans offer tolerance to five herbicides, a first for Canadian crop growers. This new advancement could help farmers combat resistant weeds and manage fields.

Left to right: Weed specialists Jeanette Gaultier of BASF, Kim Brown of Manitoba Agriculture and Tammy Jones of Corteva participate in a panel at this year’s Manitoba Agronomists Conference, moderated by plant science professor Rob Gulden.

Building a culture of weed control

Experts highlight importance of collaboration between government and private sector agronomists to contain problem weeds

Collaboration between government and private sector agronomists to contain problem weeds and herbicide resistance is key, Manitoba Agronomists Conference panel says.


VIDEO: Weeds to watch for in Manitoba

VIDEO: Weeds to watch for in Manitoba

Crop spraying conditions have likely improved since this was recorded at Crop Diagnostic School earlier this month, but that doesn’t mean any weed issues you may have been dealing with are in the rear-view mirror. As provincial weed specialist Kim Brown puts it, the warm-season weeds are upon us and taking full advantage of the

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Bayer looks to AI to combat herbicide resistance faster

Bayer's Icafolin will be its first new mode of action herbicide in some 30 years when it launches in 2028

Weeds are growing resistant to the herbicides already on the market, and agribusiness companies like Bayer are in a desperate search for new modes of action to help farmers kill them.


VIDEO: Taking the fight to kochia in North Dakota

VIDEO: Taking the fight to kochia in North Dakota

There are a number of problem weeds that growers often contend with each season, but kochia is one weed problem in particular that’s of growing concern – and not only here on the Prairies, but also south of the border. Jason Hanson, a crop consultant in North Dakota, travelled to St. Jean Farm Days earlier

Kochia in a canola field.  Photo: File

Crop-killing weeds advance across US farmland as chemicals lose effectiveness

Losing battle with weeds adds pressures to farmers already stressed by inflation, extreme weather

Crop-killing weeds such as kochia are advancing across the U.S. northern plains and Midwest, in the latest sign that weeds are developing resistance to chemicals faster than companies including Bayer BAYGn.DE and Corteva CTVA.N can develop new ones to fight them.


File photo of palmer amaranth — the taller yellowish plants — infesting a U.S. cotton field. (Photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Palmer amaranth pops back up in Ontario

Weed infamous in U.S. for multiple herbicide resistances

A single plant that showed up this summer on the edge of a southwestern Ontario cornfield is cause for concern among Canadian farmers, weed specialists warn. Writing Monday in the ag ministry’s Field Crop News, Ontario provincial weed management specialist Mike Cowbrough said the plant in question, found in Wellington County, is confirmed as palmer

Neale Heinrich stands in front of the Redekop Seed Control Unit at its booth at Ag in Motion on July 18, 2023. (Braedyn Wozniak photo)

At Ag in Motion: Herbicide resistance fight needs integrated seed management

'Those seedlings we don’t manage to kill (are) probably the most herbicide-resistant'

Harvest weed-seed control takes aim at reducing herbicide-resistant weeds that western Canadian farmers find more and more every year. At the Ag in Motion outdoor farm show this week, field residue management manufacturer Redekop won the Innovations Award for Environmental Sustainability for its harvest Seed Control Unit, which destroys more than 95 per cent of


Originally a tow-behind unit that attached to the back of the combine, the newer iteration of the Harrington Seed Destructor is a mill that can be integrated with the combine. (Photo: deBruin Engineering Pty Ltd.)

At Ag in Motion: Harvest weed control still in the mix

'You’re not going to spray your way out of this'

It’s a relatively new solution to the age-old problem of trying to get rid of weeds without broadcasting the seed or using increasingly less effective herbicides — mechanical separation and pulverization of weed seed. Harvest weed seed control might not be a golden bullet to tackle glyphosate-, fluroxypyr- and dicamba-resistant weeds, but according to Agriculture

Quick adapting and designed to spread, kochia seems biologically primed to pick off the punches farmers throw at it.

On the ropes against kochia

Growers face a formidable foe. Fast mutations and efficient seed spread are a tough one-two combination

Kill it with fire. That was the gist in 2018, after a photo of post-spray kochia in Saskatchewan made the rounds on social media. The image showed a swath of dead, brown plants. That made the single, green plant right in the centre stand out even more. There was a collective recoil from farmers in