Ken Smith: I’d like to talk with you just a second about, not weed control in the field, but weed control outside the field. One of the questions that I’ve gotten recently, numerous times, has been, what about these little pigweeds that are growing on my turn rows next to my field? Do I need to be worried about them? Are they putting seed out? Are they adding to the soil seed bank?
The technique that I would suggest here would be to come in and spray these out with Paraquat and then come back with a residual herbicide [inaudible 00:00:36] any of our residual herbicides that we use, such as [Valor, Prefix 00:00:42] etc. are very satisfactory for use here on the turn row.
Now, once we get into ditch banks, ditch banks are always a problem for because they’re not accessible, we can’t get to them as easy, but yet we can go in with our sprayers that we can put out over the edge of the ditch and spray a herbicide like Diuron. Diuron is labeled for that use. A good soil residual herbicide, Diquat, is an aquatic herbicide, works very well for us.
Oftentimes, our ditch banks and turn rows cause this problem. We do have good programs for that, and our farmers that are in our Zero Tolerance Program are doing an excellent job of managing their weeds on their ditch banks and turn rows.
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