Soybean School: Don't Give Resistant Fleabane a Foothold in Your Field

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Canada Fleabane can be the menace of menaces in your soybean crop IF you don’t hammer it down early. The truth is that the weed is so hearty — between its resistant characteristics and its ability to firmly root itself down — if you don’t deal with it while it’s young, you’ve got a problem that won’t go away.

That’s where developing and implementing an effective pre-plant strategy becomes critical. What does that involve?

In this episode of the Soybean School, Mike Cowbrough of OMAFRA talks pre-plant options involving both herbicides and tillage; which are most effective and when we should use them.

For more on why pre-plant products are so important in the fight against resistant weeds, click here.

For a herbicide selector tool, click here.

If you cannot see the embedded video below click here.

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