Written collaboratively by Eric Jones, Philip Rozeboom, Krista Ehlert, Jill Alms, David Vos, Adam Varenhorst and Madalyn Shires
Results of an online survey to determine how South Dakota stakeholders are currently managing row crop weeds.
The authors extend thanks to the SDSU Extension team for helping create and distribute the survey. A special thank you to everyone who has responded to the survey thus far.
It’s August and field bindweed, one of our most-persistent perennial weeds, is flowering. Although field bindweed is not statewide noxious, it’s locally noxious in Bennett, Bon Homme, Clarke, Lake, Stanley, and Yankton counties.
Wheat curl mites, which carry wheat streak mosaic virus, use volunteer wheat and grass weeds as secondary hosts to infest recently planted winter wheat crops. Therefore, effective management of these plants before winter wheat planting is critical.
Most of the winter wheat has been harvested in South Dakota and spring wheat harvest is underway. While the growing season is over for the wheat, post-harvest weed management is important to minimize the amount of weeds that are present in the spring