As farmers cut costs, caution should be heeded. “We can’t cut back on weed control (and) we can’t cut back on fertility,” said Marsha Van Laere, Northern Plains Sales Representative, Gowan. “Those are the two things that growers need , you let the weeds get out of hand early on and you’ve already lost your yield.” One-off year for weed control will have a multi-year impact. “We’ve seen that with waterhemp, we’ve seen it with Common Ragweed, we’ve seen it with kochia; anything that gets away and is blowing across the fields and Lord knows there’s not a lot of trees around here so the wind blows for us.”
