Just as trade show season rolls around with regularity every year, so does summer tour season. This is a valuable opportunity for growers to get off the tractor, out of the fields, and into a situation where they can do some research and learning to keep up with improvements and new technologies in the industry. [...]
Every season some new pesticides come to market. New products can encompass label additions, new combinations of existing active ingredients or brand new active ingredients. The latter is less common than the first two. New generic products are also relatively common – which speaks to the lifespan of some of the products we are using. [...]
The goal with spraying any pesticide is to ensure the target is sufficiently covered to do the job, otherwise it can be a waste of time and resources. This year, time is especially short in some regions due to wet conditions. Targeting is straightforward when spraying early, pre-seed or pre-emergence. There’s no big crop canopy [...]
