Using cover crops to fight Palmer amaranth in cotton
Story Date: 9/29/2016

 

Source: John Hart, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 9/27/16

With herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth becoming an ever increasing problem, cotton farmers are looking for non-chemical methods to control their number one weed worry. Cover crops may be one tool that delivers results. Researchers at North Carolina State University are looking at the effect of a cereal rye/crimson cover crop mulch on cotton emergence…

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