Reducing Weed Pressure with Crop Rotation

During a downtime in the farm economy, weed control remains a must. “In the case of waterhemp, it’s putting together three or four good years of waterhemp control in the crop rotation ahead of sugarbeets that we can take advantage of in sugarbeets by having less seed in the seed bank,” said University of Minnesota/NDSU Extension Sugarbeet Agronomist Tom Peters. “In the case of kochia, it may be focusing on the two crops before sugarbeets, like soybeans and wheat, and really controlling kochia.” Peters was part of the NDSU Extension Wild World of Weeds Workshop in Fargo.