If a management plan to combat herbicide resistance is not something you have yet, there are some steps that can still be implemented this year. Weed management scientists say a few steps can go a long way, such as:
- Starting Weed-Free: Whether by cultivation or burn down, this step is important.
- Think Pre: Rather than relying on post-emergent herbicides, incorporate pre-emergent herbicide using a different mode of action.
- Diversify Post: Use a rotation of chemistries and sites of action when using post-emergent herbicides.
- Scout fields for escapes and show no mercy.
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