Rice producers look to outsmart Smartweed

摘要

Pennsylvania smartweed has found a way into Mid-South rice fields where a Command-based weed control system is used to combat herbicide-resistant weeds and in some reduced-tillage situations. The shift to a Command-based weed control system is an evolution of weed management, according to Ronnie Helms, a farmer and partner in G&H Associates, an agricultural research and technical support business in Stuttgart, Ark.