by Ethan Carter | Oct 30, 2020
Dr. Brett Bultemeier, UF/IFAS Pesticide Information Office On June 3, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated the registrations of three dicamba products: Xtendimax with VaporGrip Technology, Engenia Herbicide, and DuPont FeXapan Herbicide. This...
by Mark Mauldin | Jun 26, 2020
– Horn flies are among the most noticeable and serious pests that cattle must endure, particularly through the summer months. At least in part, because the pests are so visible (swarming the withers of a cow, sometimes by the thousands) most cattle producers are...
by Pratap Devkota | Jun 15, 2020
Pratap Devkota, UF/IFAS Weed Specialist, West Florida Research and Education Center On June 3, 2020 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the registration of Xtendimax, Engenia, and FeXapan herbicide labels. Since this recent development, the US EPA has issued a...
by Daniel J. Leonard | Apr 3, 2020
On my last site consultation before COVID-19 confined everyone to our offices and homes, I visited with a local perennial peanut hay farmer who was very concerned about a “new” weed infiltrating a pasture which is two years into the establishment phase. He was...
by Ethan Carter | Jan 17, 2020
Over the last several years, many states across the Midwest and South have received extensive calls related to dicamba injury of sensitive crops from drift when it was used in over-the-top applications to fields of tolerant cotton and soybean. In 2018, the EPA called...
by Shep Eubanks | Oct 11, 2019
Aquatic weed problems are common in the Panhandle of Florida. Common Salvinia (Salvinia minima) is a persistent invasive weed problem found in many ponds in Gadsden County. There are ten species of salvinia in the tropical Americas, but none are native to...
