An extension soybean agronomist is concerned about the long-term outlook for controlling weeds.
Seth Naeve with the University of Minnesota says because herbicide resistance isn’t slowing down, alternative management strategies are becoming more necessary.
“Farmers unfortunately I think have this thing that we call ‘techno optimism’ where they’re just focused on the idea that there will be another silver bullet coming around, and there just aren’t any.”
He tells Brownfield some waterhemp populations have shown resistance to five different herbicide modes of action.
