Farmers Eye High Weed, Pest Pressure as Crops Near the Finish Line
2021 is shaping up to be a year of pestilence. Even setting COVID-19 aside, farmers have seen an active year of insects, disease and herbicide-resistant weeds, on top of the usual seasonal challenges of farming.
In this month's installment of Field Roundup, DTN Farm Advisers -- a group of farmers and ranchers from around the country -- reported via email on the season's most challenging pests. In central Kansas, Kyle Krier is wearily watching armyworms demolish his drought-stressed alfalfa. Northeastern Colorado farmer Marc Arnusch is running out of ways to kill kochia, while farmers reported stubborn waterhemp infestations in Illinois, Ohio and Minnesota. White mold is troubling north-central farmers, while the Andersen family in eastern Nebraska is uncovering more sudden death syndrome (SDS) with each soybean scouting trip.
All these pests will add to farmers' to-do lists come seed and chemical shopping season.
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In this month's installment of Field Roundup, DTN Farm Advisers -- a group of farmers and ranchers from around the country -- reported via email on the season's most challenging pests. In central Kansas, Kyle Krier is wearily watching armyworms demolish his drought-stressed alfalfa. Northeastern Colorado farmer Marc Arnusch is running out of ways to kill kochia, while farmers reported stubborn waterhemp infestations in Illinois, Ohio and Minnesota. White mold is troubling north-central farmers, while the Andersen family in eastern Nebraska is uncovering more sudden death syndrome (SDS) with each soybean scouting trip.
All these pests will add to farmers' to-do lists come seed and chemical shopping season.
Click Here to read more.