Weed Management Field Day hosts 142 attendees

Thursday, July 14, 2016
Rodrigo Werle presenting at Field Day
Rodrigo Werle, cropping systems specialist, discusses the new Inzen sorghum cultivar project.

The 2016 Corn and Soybean Weed Management Field Day was held on June 29 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln South Central Agricultural Laboratory near Clay Center.

Amit Jhala, Nebraska Extension weed management specialist, organized the field day and led the tour. The 142 participants included growers, crop consultants, extension educators, graduate students, industry representatives, and other clientele. Registration began at 8 a.m. with demonstration tours for weed control in soybean and corn at 8:30 a.m.

UNL Weed Science team members demonstrated several projects for weed control in corn and soybean that included efficacy, crop safety, and comparison of several new herbicides, such as Acuron, Anthem Maxx, Fierce XLT, DiFlexx DUO, Armezon PRO, and Warrant Ultra. Weed control and crop safety in multiple herbicide-tolerant crop technologies was demonstrated. This included Enlist corn and soybean (2,4-D-tolerant), Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybean (dicamba-tolerant), and Balance Bean (isoxaflutole-tolerant). Several herbicide programs were compared for weed control in corn and soybean in UNL’s unbiased comparison trials. Rodrigo Werle, cropping systems specialist, and Melinda Yerka, research assistant professor, discussed the new Inzen sorghum cultivar project. Postdoctoral scientist Debalin Sarangi, graduate students Zahoor Ganie, Ethann Barnes, Jacob Ziggafoos, and Parminder Chahal demonstrated research projects on various aspects of weed control in corn and soybean.

Ian Rogers, Adam Leise, Megan Drudik, Irvin Schleufer, and Caleb Wilford provided assistance in maintaining the research projects. Videos will made be available on YouTube of field day presentations.

The field tour concluded at 12 p.m. Lunch was provided followed by UNL Dairy Store ice cream.

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