48 Like Us on Facebook: BetterFarmingON Better Farming | September 2024 OILSEED MARKETS CROP ROTATI IMPROVING AIR QUALITY MARCH 2024 $9.50 PLANNING YOUR GOLDEN YEARS? Retirement 101 MANAGE YOUR FARM BUSINESS Room to Improve A CENTURY OF COLLEGE ROYAL The U of G Tradition BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! Pesticide Safety 54 30 26 38 14 TELL US HOW you’re growing: Paul.Nolan@BetterFarming.com We’re still growing. Still striving. Just like our farming readers. We’ve been bringing you this magazine for some 25 years now, and so far in 2024 we’ve been publishing bigger editions and printing more pages than ever before – going all the way back to 1999. Have we peaked? No way. We’re working as hard as ever, and our commitment to excellence continues – for Ontario’s commercial farmers and the agriculture industry across Canada. This landmark year serves as a perfect moment to express our gratitude to our devoted readers and valued advertisers. Each edition we publish reflects your ambitions and achievements. Your professionalism inspires us, and your spirit drives us. Thank you to our readers and advertisers for being the true essence of this magazine. Your continuing support is what makes our work so rewarding. Paul Nolan Publisher & Editorial Director crops: the lynch fileS Cold-tolerant weeds take up more herbicide after a good frost. The frost triggers the plant to store more nutrients. Thus, herbicides are translocated better after a frost than before a frost. Weeds in this group include dandelion, wild carrot, and quackgrass. Spray these weeds three to four days after a heavy frost. While the Purdue research indicates better control after a frost, you should not delay spraying and be waiting for a killing frost. If the weeds are actively growing, get it done. Consensus is that perennial sow thistle is neither cold-sensitive nor cold-tolerant. From my experience, perennial sow thistle can be controlled any time after mid-September if you have actively growing rosettes. You would still have to spray perennial sow thistle next year. Canada fleabane has become one of our worst weeds. There are some other options for controlling Canada fleabane in a soybean field that will be A weed-free field after fall herbicide Zidua was applied here. Susan Gowan photo
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