Early Season Weed Control

According to BASF Business Rep Nick Salentine, farmers are taking advantage of every opportunity to wrap up planting and handle weed control. “One common theme that I’ve heard across the countryside is the small grains are enjoying the cooler temperature, guys are starting to spray the wheat and we’ve got plenty of corn maps coming in with farmers getting ready to spray corn.” The on-again, off-again rains made it difficult to get a pre-emergent herbicide applied. “It seems like the guys that got the pre on had plenty of rain to get those pre’s activated, but unfortunately, there was also many fields that were geared up to get a pre that maybe didn’t they’ll have to rely on layering in residuals with an early post application.”