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23 Mar Diversified flax rotations improve weed control

Posted at 17:24h in Weeds

A flax rotation that included 3 years of alfalfa with reduced herbicide applications provided similar wild oat and cleaver control as a flax-barley-flax-oat rotation with recommended herbicide applications. Including 2 successive winter cereal crops in a 5 year rotation also improved wild oat control. Wild oat...

21 Jul Use pre-seed and pre-harvest herbicides for cleavers control

Posted at 21:41h in Weeds

Cleavers can germinate very early in the spring, making pre-seed burnoff a good way to control  the weeds when they’re small and limit cleavers  seed in harvested canola. Pre-harvest saflufenacil plus glyphosate may also provide short- and long-term management. This study shows that cleavers populations in...