Weed control - Articles

Planting Green? You May Need to Adjust Your Residual Herbicide Program

July 29, 2026 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Termination

Source: Take Action

Cover crops and soil residual herbicides can make a powerful weed control duo, but only if those herbicides actually reach the soil. Penn State, Virginia Tech, and University of Delaware researchers recently examined how much cover crops (and cover crop management) can prevent herbicides from reaching the soil, as well as which herbicide chemistries are more likely to wash-off cover crops through rainfall.

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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: July 3, 2026

By Kendra Downing posted on July 3, 2026

This Week's Lineup:

Cover Crops Lead to Clean Soybean Field
A Decade of Cover Crops in Illinois
45Z Rules and Cover Crops
Seeding Cover Crops With Drones
Maximizing Field Performance With Cover Crops

No-Till, Strip-Till and Cover Crops Research Journal - March 2026

Each month, the conservation ag group at Cornell University offers an analysis of the latest scientific papers dealing with conservation agriculture research from around the world. For this on-going web series, our editors will be selecting several research papers from the Cornell list that will be of special interest to North American no-tillers, strip-tillers and cover croppers.

By Frank Lessiter posted on March 11, 2026 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag, Seeding Practices, Soil Health

In this edition:

Sixty years of crop diversification with perennials improves yields more than no-tillage in Ohio grain cropping systems
Conservation Tillage Practices on GHG Emissions, Soil Health and Overall Agricultural Sustainability
Long-term continuous no-till corn-soybean systems: Examining soil carbon sequestration and nitrogen accumulation across various pools
Assessing the agricultural, environmental, and economic effects of crop diversity management: A comprehensive review on crop rotation and cover crop practices
Cover Crops Optimize Soil Fertility and Soybean Productivity in the Cerrado of MATOPIBA, Brazil
Short-term no-tillage improves soil water retention and maintains soil aeration at high moisture conditions despite reduced macroporosity
Tillage Radish as Cover Crop Improves Soil Health Indicators Depending on Pedoclimatic Conditions.

Smother, Suppress, Succeed: Using Cover Crops for Weed Control

November 4, 2025 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag, Soil Health

Source: Purdue University Extension

Weeds continue to be increasingly challenging each year with herbicide resistance concerns on the rise, persistent challenging environmental conditions, and further spreading across the state (particularly with waterhemp). As a result, it is not viable to rely solely on herbicides for successful weed management anymore.

New Technology Lets Farms ‘Steam'-roll Weeds & Pests

February 21, 2025 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions

The Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) and University of California-Davis recently unveiled an eco-friendly solution for “soil disinfection” with the propane-powered soil steamer.

Crabgrass Could Serve as an Alternative Cattle Forage

January 15, 2025 | Posted in Grazing, Seeding Practices

Source: Farm Talk

In eastern Kansas, incorporating warm-season grasses like crabgrass can extend the grazing season by providing forage during summer when cool-season grasses decline.

Cover Crops Build Soil Health, Control Weeds, Feed Livestock

By Jamie Henneman posted on July 17, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: The Prairie Star

In early July, when conventional farms are still using chemical herbicides to try and keep weeds out of their fallow fields, organic farmer John Wicks is using a different approach.

Why Don't More Farmers No-Till & Plant Cover Crops?

February 24, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Farm Progress

Get 10, 100 or 1,000 farmers together who believe no-till and cover crops are the right way to farm. This question will come up: How can we get more people to change their attitudes about no-till and cover crops?

How Weeds Respond to Drought Conditions

June 21, 2023

Source: University of Nebraska: CropWatch

A global meta-analysis was conducted using 1,196 paired observations from 86 published articles assessing the effect of water stress on weed germination, growth characteristics and seed production.