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| We quit using dicamba in corn becsuse it wasn't controlling TWH. Last year we post sprayed 1/2 of our corn acres wuth rdup / Status, the other half was Halex GT / atrazine. All corn acres had a preplant of Degree Xtra / atrazine. At harvest we fought TWH in the fields that had the rdup / status. Other acres were clean. Last year wasn't the first that we saw where status wasn't doing the job it use.
Three years sgo we went with Liberty beans. Like you say, we learned that you need to get weeds before they get too big, need plenty of water, nozzles that give good coverage (we use Green Leaf's TADFs), plenty of pressure and dry AMS Plus need to get your rate close to the max, not the miminum.. Sure, a liquid AMS subsitute is easier to use but you get what you pay for. I'm 67, had shoulder surgery last year, I do most of our spray/mixing, nevertheless we ran dry AMS on every acre of corn & bean post spray. We have also learned you need a preemerge & a residual with the Liberty. Not a cheap program but we have had very little respray
Using dicamba, or any other chemical, for a post spray in corn and in beans is going to end up like what happened when everyone was relying on rdup as the go to herbicide.
Edited by boog 6/24/2018 14:20
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Not sure if liberty is the answer either
