Success StoryRound Up Resistant Weed Plot Tour
Round Up Resistant Weed Plot Tour
Author: Thomas Miller
Planning Unit: Ballard County CES
Major Program: Chemical Crop Management Tools
Plan of Work: Ballard County Farm Chemical Management
Outcome: Initial Outcome
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 regions of Kentucky, and the plot showed all the different options from traditional programs, soil residual programs, Liberty enhanced options and the brand new Dicamba and 2,4-D options.
This location has been used for a research plot for the last 2 growing seasons and was the first location in Kentucky to have proven PPO weed resistance along with Round up resistance. Results from the field day showed farmers that relying on the traditional methods would no longer work, but there were several options that gave very acceptable weed control in one of the harshest locations in Kentucky
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