Ask corn growers what their No. 1 weed problem is today, and it’s likely at least one of these three – Palmer amaranth (pigweed), waterhemp or common ragweed – will be listed in their response. In an ...

In a high-stakes legal battle between two of the world’s largest crop protection giants, Syngenta has filed a federal patent ...

Use collars (for example, see the light-green “lines” across the plant shone here), and not a calendar, to minimize risks with post-herbicide applications in each field. Variable crop emergence, soil ...

When a sweet corn breeder reached out in 2021 to report severe injury from the herbicide tolpyralate, Marty Williams hoped it was a fluke isolated to a single inbred line. Tolpyralate is a relatively ...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published by the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. A new genetically engineered corn seed designed by Bayer to be sprayed by up to five herbicides ...

A team of Agricultural Research Service, university and industry scientists has spotted a new genetic vulnerability to tolpyralate herbicide in 49 varieties of corn, marking the first report of the ...

Agricultural company Syngenta has sued German chemical giant BASF , alleging in a Delaware lawsuit that BASF's new corn ...

Waterhemp resists all foliar herbicides approved in Illinois. Experts say metribuzin may be a soil-applied option in soybeans ...

Weed control has focused on resistance management, with a greater reliance on residual herbicide programs, use of multiple sites of action at full rates and over lapping residual programs. As use of ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 29, 2020) Bayer’s Monsanto is requesting non-regulated status for corn that will increase the use of drift-prone and toxic herbicides. This means that the planting of a new ...