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Spend the big bucks on herbicides for spring 2020

A certified crop advisor says fall weed management is important, but farmers should save most of their money for spring 2020 applications.

Mark Wilson is with Wabash Valley Service Company in southeast Illinois. He tells Brownfield excessive rains washed away spring 2019 herbicides allowing weeds to come up late this fall.

“We’re only going to get one more flush of weeds this fall, if that, with weather cooling off. Next spring, we are going to get flush after flush after flush. That is when we need to spend our big money on herbicides.”

But he says farmers should not overlook a fall application.

“We are going to have weeds that we are gong to have to deal with early next spring. So, the cleaner we start out, that seed load that we picked up this year, we will have a better chance of keeping that under control.”  

He says there are a lot of herbicide options out there to simply kill weeds that are present this fall and hold them down for a while.