Written collaboratively by Zachary Loomis, Eric Jones and Adam J. Varenhorst
Fact sheet to help identify and manage common ragweed and giant ragweed.
Written collaboratively by Zachary Loomis, Eric Jones and Adam J. Varenhorst
Fact sheet to help identify and manage common ragweed and giant ragweed.
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