Workshops, Weeds, Plans A and B

News from Your Federated Agronomists | March 12, 2019

Don't Miss the Grower Workshops this Week

It's not too late to get in on one of Federated’s Grower Workshops this week. Workshops begin at 10 a.m. and conclude with lunch. Call your Federated Agronomist to RSVP.

Don't miss your chance to learn more about topics that will benefit your 2019 crop plans.

Enlist™ trait and herbicide system,
Discovery Plot reports,
precision ag opportunities with Proagrica®, and a
grain market update (provided by CHS grain specialist).

Tues., March 12 – Rush City, Chuckers Bowl

Wed., March 13 – Ogilvie, Northern Lights (Pease)

Thurs., March 14 – Osceola, American Legion (St. Croix Falls)

Fri., March 15 – Isanti, Captains on Long Lake

(Photo: Keith Steiner giving a presentation at a 2018 Grower Workshop.)

Plan A or Plan B? Either Way, Include Pre-Emerge Herbicides

“We need to be very diligent with the management of our herbicides,” said Kevin Carlson, Federated’s agronomy manager, as he described how growers are “down to using [herbicides with] multiple modes of action” to fight the toughest weeds, especially waterhemp.

Waterhemp has shown itself good at adapting to herbicide modes of action. Most recently, in Illinois, it was documented to be resistant to Group 15 herbicides, “which is particularly alarming,” said Carlson... Read more.

Acuron® Works on the Tough Ones

The TV ads show weeds laughing … until Acuron hits … but it’s no laughing matter when the tough weeds choke out a crop. Because of the mounting need for strong pre-emerge herbicides, Federated recommends Acuron® herbicide (by Syngenta ® ) for pre-emerge and early post corn applications.

Acuron is a “premier product,” according to Ryan Peterson, Federated’s custom applicator manager at the Osceola location, because it works very well on giant ragweed, waterhemp, and lambsquarter (among other weeds)... Read more.

Nutrient Management: Don't Forget the Zinc.

“This year could be a stressful as last year … due to the amount of snow … and the amount of tillage that didn’t get done last fall,” said Slater, sales agronomist at Federated’s Isanti location. To lessen the stress of spring, because it is coming, even though it still looks like winter, he recommends outlining a fertility plan now so that “once the floodgates of spring open,” there are plans for everyone – both growers and Federated – to fall back on. “When the crop comes up it’s hard to chase a deficiency..." Read more.

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