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Managing weed control early this year
Warm winter weather has fields greening up and an agronomist says that could create additional weed control challenges for farmers this spring.
University of Illinois’ Aaron Hager says the survival of fall and winter annuals has been really high. “We would encourage farmers, if you had the opportunity to try and work on these winter annuals population,” he says. “Especially in no-till systems before they get tremendous size to them. I think in the long-run it’s going to be a better way to do that – rather than trying to wait until you get around to it in the future.”
He tells Brownfield that means farmers will need to be more aggressive in weed control this year.
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