Palmer amaranth is infamous for pushing through herbicide control. New research hopes a tailored virus has more luck in controlling the noxious weed.
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Bioherbicide to attack Palmer amaranth
Researchers are developing a targeted virus to beat back the infamous yield robber
Don’t yield to weed invaders
It’s important to stop Palmer amaranth and waterhemp in their tracks
Invasive Species Awareness Week occurs during the last week of April in Manitoba. The Manitoba Weed Supervisors Association (MWSA) recognizes this week by highlighting a few of the invasive plants considered to be a significant threat to the landscape of our province. Many of these invasive species are mistaken for wildflowers, but unlike native wildflowers,
The gaps in Palmer amaranth, waterhemp prevention
There may be more getting done than producers realize, but more resources couldn’t hurt
No one wants Palmer amaranth or waterhemp to become bigger weed worries in Manitoba, and there’s work focused on making sure that doesn’t happen, but local knowledge is still thin on the ground. The two boogeymen of the weed realm were recent subjects of a successful resolution brought before the Keystone Agricultural Producers. The motion, by ag diploma students
Farm organization takes aim at noxious weeds
Action targeting waterhemp, Palmer amaranth greenlit at KAP advisory council meeting
Keystone Agricultural Producers will set its sights on two emerging noxious weeds: waterhemp and Palmer amaranth. A resolution brought forward by University of Manitoba agriculture diploma students during KAP’s March advisory council meeting March 27 aims to give more support to farmers to beat back Manitoba’s growing problem. Why it matters: Waterhemp and Palmer amaranth
The problem with pigweeds
Differentiating different species, including major threats like Palmer amaranth and waterhemp, can be challenging
Scouting for waterhemp is difficult but critical, Manitoba Agriculture weed specialist Kim Brown told producers during her presentation at St. Jean Farm Days Jan. 10. “You’re going to hear a lot about this in the next few years because this is just going to become a bigger and bigger problem, but I really believe we can get out
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
KAP to lobby CFIA to add Palmer amaranth to noxious weeds list
The yield-devastating weed is ubiquitous just across the U.S. border and resists most herbicides
Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) members voted to ask the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to get Palmer amaranth added to its list of noxious weeds during the organization’s AGM on January 25. The weed made its first confirmed appearance in Manitoba this summer. It is widespread in North Dakota and much of the United States. Palmer
Palmer amaranth found in Manitoba
Experts have been watching as the infamous yield eater has been creeping through fields in Manitoba’s neighbour to the south
Manitoba has its first cases of palmer amaranth, a weed well known for production hits in the U.S. Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development has confirmed two plants of the noxious weed in the RM of Dufferin as of the second-last week of September. Plants were found in a black bean field in the region. “They
Arkansas confirms first-ever glufosinate-resistant broadleaf
Researchers find Palmer amaranth strains in two counties
Researchers in the southern U.S. have found what they say is the first broadleaf weed in the world to beat the active ingredient in BASF’s Liberty herbicide. The University of Arkansas last week announced its ag researchers had found glufosinate-resistant Palmer amaranth in crops in two eastern Arkansas counties across the Mississippi River from Memphis.
Dicamba-resistant Palmer amaranth found in U.S.
Farmers there started growing dicamba-tolerant soybeans in 2016
The list of herbicide-resistant weeds continues to grow. Dicamba-resistant Palmer amaranth weeds have been found in parts of Tennessee, University of Tennessee Extension weed specialist Larry Steckel wrote in a July blog. “Results from some of the greenhouse experiments this winter and spring, as well as in-field research this growing season, would suggest that our
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