Extension
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Author: Thomas Miller
Major Program: Chemical Crop Management Tools
On July 12, 2017, Dr. J D Green, Extension Weed Specialist from Lexington led a Round up Resistant Weed Plot tour on the weed plot in Ballard County. The tour was from 9:00am until noon with a formal program at 10:30. Forty eight farmers, Ag Retailers, and fellow extension agents participated in the tour where they learned the various options to control Round Up Resistant Pigweeds and Waterhemp in soybeans. Problems with these weeds are exploding across the soybean growing regi
Author: Gregory Drake
Major Program: Chemical Crop Management Tools
~~Application of crop protection chemicals and lawn/landscape chemicals is an important industry in South Central Kentucky. Professional applicators must receive training to stay current on issues, pests, techniques, and safety for the products they apply. They need to receive 12 hours of continuing education during a three year cycle to maintain their applicator license. 3 of these hours must address specific topics that pertain to their license category. Many applicator
Author: David Embrey
Major Program: Chemical Crop Management Tools
Application of crop protection chemicals and lawn/landscape chemicals is an important industry in South Central Kentucky. Professional applicators must receive training to stay current on issues, pests, techniques, and safety for the products they apply. They need to receive 12 hours of continuing education during a three year cycle to maintain their applicator license. 3 of these hours must address specific topics that pertain to their license category. Many applicators
Author: Benjamin Rudy
Major Program: Chemical Crop Management Tools
As producers continue to manage Palmer Amaranth and Resistant Water Hemp, an ever-growing problem in Fulton County and other counties in Kentucky, many producers switched to the newly approve Dicamba technology. This new technology allowed soybeans that were previously susceptible to dicamba herbicides to be resistant. Along with these newly resistant soybeans, the three major chemical companies developed a newer, lower volatile dicamba herbicide.During the 2017 growing season, produ
Author: Jason Phillips
Major Program: Chemical Crop Management Tools
Application of crop protection chemicals and lawn/landscape chemicals is an important industry in South Central Kentucky. Professional applicators must receive training to stay current on issues, pests, techniques, and safety for the products they apply. They need to receive 12 hours of continuing education during a three year cycle to maintain their applicator license. 3 of these hours must address specific topics that pertain to their license category. &n
Author: Thomas Miller
Major Program: Chemical Crop Management Tools
With the unprecedented change in the label requirements for Dicamba herbicide products used in conjunction with Dicamba resistant soybeans, that all applicators have to attend a specific training session and get Ky Department of Ag certification, many growers in Ballard County were complaining of the lack of a training session in our immediate area and limited number of training sessions in western KY. Ballard County Extension Agent for Ag and Natural Resources, Tom Miller, began working with au
