| Jackrabbit - 5/17/2022 07:46 Pre's may be the biggest lie sold to American farmers. Amazed how few can really think this through. They have great value in heavy weed pressure situations but if you are constantly using pre's and still have heavy weed pressure is your system working? A pre for kochia is absolute money. A pre for waterhemp is absolute nonsense. The reason you have waterhemp is because you are using pre's to try to control a weed that will germinate in July.
So what's your plan for carryover issues when the vast majority of beans get rotated to corn the following growing season? Yeah, I can put a lot of things out there that will keep soybeans clean till harvest with just a single pass, but they aren't going to be very friendly to high yielding corn the next time- and maybe not to any small grains or hay seeding either. I could dump ten pounds of atrazine on my corn, but I probably shouldn't expect 70 bpa beans next year with that plan either. |
How important is a residual pre with E3 beans?
