Resistance Management

The weed-resistance headache is not going away anytime soon. BASF Technical Service Representative Ken Diebert advocates a residual weed management approach. “We need to continue to rotate chemistries and promote residual chemistries in every crop that we can,” said Diebert. “Canola might be one exception where we don’t have the opportunity to really drive home that residual message just for due to a lack of labeled options, but fir crops like soybeans, corn and dry beans, we’re going to continue to talk about these residual chemistries like Outlook and Zidua.” The new glufosinate product, Liberty ULTRA, is on the market for the upcoming growing season. “As the traited soybean acres continue to grow, that’s obviously creating a lot of this demand.”