What dangers do you face without proper risk management? Herbicide resistance is also a serious threat to your acreage. It can not only cost you revenue: The worst threat is the total loss in individual crops. If a farmer detects an increased presence of weeds on his fields, the increased use of herbicides is only…
Most farmers are familiar with the problem of herbicide resistance. Though many believe that the problem can be solved with long-term use of other herbicides. Herbicide resistance is threatening more and more acreage in Europe. The dangers from weeds and grass weeds is also threatening more and more businesses in Germany. In some cases no…
This year we again visited 1300 fields during our weed and resistance monitoring. Part of the monitoring is determining the resistance situation of different field weeds in Germany. Most of the agricultural areas were already part of the monitoring last year, so that we now have two-year data and can identify trends in infestation for…
The second week of our monitoring for 2020 is about to begin. Just like last year, around 1000 fields across Germany are being sampled again for resistant grass weeds and weeds. We particularly want to re-sample fields that were already added to our database in 2019. This helps us to better evaluate the development of…
From 3-5 March the biennial working meeting on issues of weed biology and control took place in Braunschweig. We were part of the 200 participants and presented our work and initial results. Our lecture dealt with our monitoring program and initial analyzes of the resistance situation in redroot, wind grass, brome, and ryegrass. In addition…
