Source: Brad Haire, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 5/29/18


Some cotton growers have been unable to apply a timely first post-emergence herbicide application, and any delay can matter against pigweed. And the time of day in which the application is made matters, too. Across much of the lower Southeast, the last two weeks of May haven’t been perfect pigweed-fighting weather. Though the region was on the verge of troubling drought as May started, it got wet and messy quick in some locations, which included excessive rain from an early season tropical storm.

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