Marestail and pigweed are some of the most dreaded weeds for crop producers across North Central Kansas, especially when they grow in soybean fields. Controlling these weeds, before they reach four ...

Glyphosate-resistant marestail has infested about 2.2 million acres in Nebraska. Marestail is difficult to control due to its emergence pattern. Marestail primarily emerges in the fall though some ...

The bad news? Marestail is a problematic weed lurking in many fields. The good news? There are several control options, according to Kansas State University Extension specialists Dallas Peterson and ...

Controlling glyphosate-resistant marestail in soybeans continues to be a big challenge for Kansas no-till producers. Because soybeans are generally planted later in the season, and marestail generally ...

In the rush to plant early soybeans, beware of weed species you might not normally encounter when planting soybeans during the traditional timeframe for your area. “You aren’t dealing with Palmer ...

Marestail . . . if you frequent farm stores you’ve heard people talking about how hard it is to kill. If you’ve been to a lawn and garden store, it’s the one they call, “that bushy leafed weed that ...

Dallas Peterson, Weed Management Specialist [email protected] Doug Shoup, Southeast Area Crops and Soils Specialist [email protected] Herbicide effectiveness on marestail depends largely on the stage of ...

Q. I have a white oak tree that lost about half of its leaves to a varmint. I’m guessing June bugs that were in a bunch about 15 feet away. The tree did not put out any new growth except late in the ...

Marestail or horseweed (Erigeron canadensis) is a challenging weed to manage in no-till or minimum-till cropping systems. This weed is classified as a winter annual, but it germinates well into spring ...

I hope that this growing season is proving to be better than 2020. Steady rain in June has put most areas well ahead of where we were this time last year. Unfortunately, that means more weeds ...

Drive by just about any soybean field in the community and you are likely to see marestail growing high above the canopy. In some fields, the marestail is overwhelming the beans, in others the plant ...