A big part of the lure to Glyphosate Resistant soybean production has been the ability to consistently grow clean weed feee soybeans.
When you travel through the countryside it is quite easy to pick out the Glyphosate resistant soybean fields.Like the one above they generally look impeccably clean.
NO HOES NEEDED HERE !
Unfortunately the same cannot be said for conventional IP soybean production.The lure of a premium may be nice but it certainly requires a demanding herbicide regime to keep weeds down.
In many cases it takes two sometimes three spray applications to try and keep weeds in check in a conventional IP program.Even then fields at times may not be satisfactorily clean.
Some growers will be required to apply a preharvest burndown of glyphosate in order to properly harvest fields and hopefully still salvage a premium.
WEEDS !
WEEDS !
WEEDS!
AND MORE WEEDS !
Preharvest burndowns will definitely be needed to allow harvest of these IP fields.
IP Premiums sound nice but they certainly don't come without their fair share of challenges.An intensively managed weed control program is a definite must for any grower to have a chance at achieving his premiums.The risk - reward efforts of a Conventional IP PROGRAM must be carefully weighed by any producer venturing down this path.
A big part of the lure to Glyphosate Resistant soybean production has been the ability to consistently grow clean weed feee soybeans.
When you travel through the countryside it is quite easy to pick out the Glyphosate resistant soybean fields.Like the one above they generally look impeccably clean.
NO HOES NEEDED HERE !
Unfortunately the same cannot be said for conventional IP soybean production.The lure of a premium may be nice but it certainly requires a demanding herbicide regime to keep weeds down.
In many cases it takes two sometimes three spray applications to try and keep weeds in check in a conventional IP program.Even then fields at times may not be satisfactorily clean.
Some growers will be required to apply a preharvest burndown of glyphosate in order to properly harvest fields and hopefully still salvage a premium.
WEEDS !
WEEDS !
WEEDS!
AND MORE WEEDS !
Preharvest burndowns will definitely be needed to allow harvest of these IP fields.
IP Premiums sound nice but they certainly don't come without their fair share of challenges.An intensively managed weed control program is a definite must for any grower to have a chance at achieving his premiums.The risk - reward efforts of a Conventional IP PROGRAM must be carefully weighed by any producer venturing down this path.
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