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Farmers harvesting small grains should be on the lookout for late-season weeds.

Jared Goplen, extension crops educator with the University of Minnesota, says newly harvested fields will start greening up if they haven’t already.

“A lot of those fields, if you take a little bit closer look, water hemp and some of the other pigweed species are starting to come through that wheat stubble.  And certainly to prevent seed production this summer, those weed populations need to be addressed.”

He tells Brownfield if farmers aren’t planning to grow a cover crop or graze livestock on the post-harvest stubble, herbicides are an effective management tool.

Continue reading Managing weeds following small grain harvest at Brownfield Ag News.