Hopefully, most of our full-season soybean crop has been managed for weeds by this time of the summer and some growers have planted or are still considering double-crop. There is still time to ensure your soybean weed control programs worked by scouting those full-season soybeans for escapes and by selecting effective herbicides to control weeds in double-crop soybeans.

In Water Effects On Pesticide Performance, Montana State pesticide education specialist Reeves Petroff reminds us that pesticides may react with water, especially if the water is considered hard.

The world's most widely used weed killer is not responsible for perpetuating Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) in soybeans, research shows.

Precision farming technology that will allow reduced herbicide use by accurately identifying and spot-spraying weeds, developed from research funded by the Horticultural Development Company (HDC), is to go into commercial production.

Cover crops can be excellent systems to capture excess nutrients and reduce the risk of erosion over the winter months.

We have been receiving reports since corn harvest began this fall about an unusual phenomenon: yields of the outside 8 to 24 rows on the south or west edges of corn fields show lower or much lower yields than corn farther into the field. The damage tends to be relatively uniform down or across the field, and is on field edges that border a soybean field, road, ditch, or another short-growing crop (such as forage legumes or grasses) other than corn.

One way we can reduce spray drift is through using low-drift nozzles. Low drift nozzles work, they reduce the number of drift-prone droplets significantly.

Ohio State University weed expert Mark Loux shares some things to consider relative to POST treatments in soybeans.

Crop yields, prices and weather conditions for strip-tilling are totally opposite - for the better - this fall versus 2009, says Jodi DeJong-Hughes, University of Minnesota Extension crops and soils educator in Marshall, Minn.

More and more farmers in California are using strip-till according to surveys by the state�s Conservation Tillage and Cropping Systems Workgroup.