Syngenta Agronomy Service Representative Phil Krieg says weed pressure during corn emergence can negatively impact growth throughout the plant’s life. “Early season weed control means everything to yield,” said Krieg. “We always see an advantage to controlling weeds early, controlling them before they ever come up to compete with the crop in any way or at any size.” Waterhemp is particularly difficult to control. “This weed has outsmarted just about every chemistry that we’ve tried to use to control it from a resistance standpoint. We like to look at that weed first and foremost from a control aspect, taking a look at doing everything we can to keep it from developing more resistance than it already has.”
