The University of Missouri weed science department is studying non-conventional weed remedies for conventional crop systems. Dr. Kevin Bradley, during the virtual MU Crop Conference, says he’s gotten some pushback because most farmers are herbicide-centric, “We think that the number one way we’re going to be controlling weeds in the future and now is with a herbicide. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But, that’s where we are in agriculture. We’ve been conditioned to think that way.”
Bradley says waterhemp is worse in Missouri today than it was 17 years ago.
