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2015 Lessons Will Affect Next Year’s Weed Management

Even with all the time and resources that were expended to control weeds in 2015, weeds will once again be a foe in Midwestern fields in 2016, said University of Illinois weed scientist Aaron Hager.

As weed management practitioners begin to contemplate plans and programs for next season, Hager published a four-part blog series on weed management over the past year that could provide helpful information for the 2016 season.

In the series, Hager points out that weather patterns during portions of the 2015 growing season once again demonstrated the trouble with weed management programs that rely exclusively on one tool or tactic.

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