What is Operation Weed Eradication?

Build your weed management plan with a yearlong focus.

Three questions to ask yourself from the current growing season.

A comprehensive weed control plan takes a lot of planning and effort to successfully put in practice, and finding efficiencies can be crucial to your plan’s success.

Fortunately, efficiencies often have the added benefit of saving you money. New boom priming technologies fit into this category. They save you time and reduce product waste, which can also benefit grasses and wildlife around your fields.

Let’s take a look.

When it comes to keeping fields clean all season long, it’s important to note that one weed is one too many. Enter Operation Weed Eradication. The mission of this industry initiative is to educate growers and industry leaders on why the last weed standing is the strongest, most capable and the most genetically resistant weed on the farm, and ultimately, to provide a solution that secures the future state of farming.

Your weed control plan likely includes a variety of different chemical types for a variety of crops. While you’re accounting for those demands, it’s important to consider that proper cleanout of your system could help protect your yield and minimize the chance of a disastrous mistake.

Here’s why proper cleanout is important and how new technologies can help you achieve it.

“This content was edited from the original article written by Robin Siktberg which appeared in the June 2018 issue of PrecisionAg Professional magazine”