Category: Food Use

Herbicide label expansion could provide cucumber and squash growers extended weed control

Posted on — David Kuack

Researchers are conducting trials through IR-4 Project to determine the weed control effectiveness of clomazone as a post-transplant application. Clomazone has become an important weed control tool for specialty crop growers. This pre-emergent herbicide provides effective control of many annual grasses and common broadleaf weeds. Through the IR-4 Project, researchers are now studying whether this […]

New Plant Growth Regulator Labeling for Northern Growers Can Improve Corn and Alfalfa Production

Posted on — Michele Myers

In 2018, Wisconsin growers produced 13.4 million tons of silage corn and 1.93 million tons of alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures. Interseeding alfalfa with silage corn has many advantages for growers and is beneficial for the environment and livestock, but it can be challenging due to reduced light under the corn canopy. Prohexadione calcium can be […]

Cilantro and dill growers gain an additional weed control tool

Posted on — David Kuack

Cilantro and dill growers and researchers work together to expand registration of clomazone through IR-4 Project. Growing multiple vegetable crops can be a blessing and a curse. Ratto Bros. Inc. in Modesto, Calif., produces 38 different crops, primarily leafy greens and herbs. “We grow a broad spectrum of crops,” said Brandon Narron, ranch manager at […]

Expanding options to protect Asparagus

Posted on — Katie Chriest

Few veggies herald the advent of summer like asparagus spears emerging from underground. Asparagus appreciation dates back millennia, and Millennial bloggers continue to drive its demand today. This is a perennial plant with perennial popularity. “There’s no other crop quite like asparagus,” summarizes Brenna Aegerter, Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor at the University of California. “Fields […]

Growers have more options when trying to manage basil downy mildew

Posted on — David Kuack

Resistant varieties and additional fungicides can assist growers in protecting their basil crops from downy mildew infection. Whether basil is grown in controlled environment structures or outdoors, downy mildew can be a destructive disease of this crop. “For organic basil crops, downy mildew can be quite devastating and usually results in total crop loss that […]