Waterhemp is in the crosshairs of soybean growers as the 2021 growing season begins.

Shawna Hubbard, Enlist herbicide product manager for Corteva, calls the pigweed species a very tough customer.

“And a good example of a really hard-to-control broadleaf that was one of the drivers of why we brought the Enlist weed control system to market.”

She tells Brownfield waterhemp is a very adaptable and competitive weed that shows increasing resistance, emerges late in the season, and is a prolific seed producer that can grow an inch per day.

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