Is Headline the greatest thing since Pursuit or Accent or Roundup?
Maybe not, but it could be the start of getting to the next yield plateau in corn production
by PAT LYNCH
In the last 35 years, we’ve have seen a lot of chemicals change the way we grow crops. In the early 1970s, we went away from 2,4-D and atrazine post-emergent herbicides on corn to pre-emerge and ppi herbicides. Corn yields went up. Based on what we know today, yields went up because farmers controlled weeds before they saw them.