Microscopic abrasions allow microbes to infect embryonic weeds
Tammy Jones has been doing the math on where herbicide resistance is taking Manitoba farmers and the numbers are grim
Aussie invention is much cheaper, easier to use, but is still in the ‘promising, not proven’ category
Farmers need to be 100 per cent confident these new technologies will work when they hit the field
Know your economic threshold before firing up the sprayer
This is a Tier 1 noxious weed that Manitoba Agriculture wants to prevent from spreading
Farmers didn’t see many weeds early this year, but agronomists warned that the flush was coming
Manitoba’s weather lately means weeds have toughened up and herbicides may have an uphill battle if weeds aren’t growing vigorously
Weeds haven’t exactly flourished in the cold this spring, but the province warns that they are germinating, and the cold itself lends challenges to spraying them out
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