The bad news? Marestail is a problematic weed lurking in many fields. The good news? There are several control options, according to Kansas State University Extension specialists Dallas Peterson and ...

Glyphosate-resistant marestail has infested about 2.2 million acres in Nebraska. Marestail is difficult to control due to its emergence pattern. Marestail primarily emerges in the fall though some ...

Marestail and pigweed are some of the most dreaded weeds for crop producers across North Central Kansas, especially when they grow in soybean fields. Controlling these weeds, before they reach four ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Producers need to make burndown applications on winter annual weeds quickly once weather conditions allow them to get into fields, two Purdue Extensions weed specialists say.

One of the most important factors that determines the success of a dryland sorghum crop is the amount of water stored in the soil profile prior to planting. In dry years, 1 inch of available soil ...

Controlling glyphosate-resistant marestail in soybeans continues to be a big challenge for Kansas no-till producers. Because soybeans are generally planted later in the season, and marestail generally ...

Drive by just about any soybean field in the community and you are likely to see marestail growing high above the canopy. In some fields, the marestail is overwhelming the beans, in others the plant ...

Dallas Peterson, Weed Management Specialist dpeterso@ksu.edu Doug Shoup, Southeast Area Crops and Soils Specialist dshoup@ksu.edu Herbicide effectiveness on marestail depends largely on the stage of ...

For the past three years marestail populations east of the Mississippi River have exhibited resistance to glyphosate, the active ingredient in many popular herbicides, including Roundup. In 2002 the ...