Quackgrass (Elymus repens) is a cool-season perennial grass, generally found in vacant fields or along roadsides that are not regularly mowed.
84 articles tagged "Weeds".
Every spring we receive phone calls and emails with concerns of the presence of poison hemlock (Conium maculatum L.) in pastures, fencelines, and field edges (Figure 1).
Scouringrushs and horsetails are known by many different common names such as snake grass, jointed grass, monkey grass or simply Equisetum to name a few.
Every spring we receive several calls and e-mails about a certain 3-foot tall weed with yellow flowers (Figure 1).
Every year growers may experience challenges when controlling winter annuals weeds or terminating cover crops with glyphosate, specifically when glyphosate is sprayed in cool weather conditions or tank mixed with atrazine or an atrazine premix.
Field work has progressed significantly in the past couple of weeks due to warmer temperatures.
The warmer temperatures in the past couple of weeks have allowed winter wheat fields in Indiana to green up and resume growth.
We have been getting lots of inquiries lately about fields that didn’t get planted to a corn or soybean crop, and have lots of weeds growing in them.
The Purdue Weed Science team is hosting an educational field day for farmers, agricultural industry professionals, Extension educators, consultants and others who apply herbicides.
Our rainy wet weather conditions have certainly caused a lot of delays in field operations this spring. One of these challenges we face in a spring like this one is the process of getting crops terminated and summer annual crops like corn and soybean planted in fields where cover crops have grown somewhat large.
