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A Study of Herbicide Drift in the North Central US: Drift Damage and Grower Responses

March 18, 2021 9:49 AM
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If you grow specialty crops in Iowa or another North Central state, please help us with a study to:

  • assess frequency, severity, and other details of herbicide drift damage.
  • measure related farmer concerns, actions, and experiences.
  • collect data to inform policy, research, and educational priorities.

The survey is at: go.osu.edu/drift12 Thank you for your help. 

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Crop Protection Network (CPN) Needs Your Input!

September 21, 2020 1:31 PM
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Help the CPN determine how to serve you best through this short survey.

The Crop Protection Network (CPN) develops tools to help farmers, ag industry, and researchers with crop protection decisions. The CPN is a partnership of university Extension specialists providing unbiased, research-based information at no cost.

Survey of Herbicide-Resistant Waterhemp in Iowa Corn and Soybean Fields

September 20, 2019
Waterhemp infestation in a soybean field in Iowa. September 2019.

The escalating spread of herbicide-resistant weed populations has become a production challenge in the corn-soybean based cropping system of the Midwest. With the evolution of weed resistance to major herbicide groups used in corn and soybean, we have a limited number of herbicide options left, which is even more disconcerting as no new herbicide site of action has been discovered in the past three decades. A new site of action coming to the marketplace in the next 5-8 years would also be a rare event.

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