One weed that continues to be a problem throughout Ohio and here in Coshocton County is marestail. Marestail is an annual weed that can follow a winter or summer annual life cycle. It can compete with ...

Glyphosate-resistant marestail has infested about 2.2 million acres in Nebraska. Marestail is difficult to control due to its emergence pattern. Marestail primarily emerges in the fall though some ...

For the past three years marestail populations east of the Mississippi River have exhibited resistance to glyphosate, the active ingredient in many popular herbicides, including Roundup. In 2002 the ...

Drive by just about any soybean field in the community and you are likely to see marestail growing high above the canopy. In some fields, the marestail is overwhelming the beans, in others the plant ...

Marestail . . . if you frequent farm stores you’ve heard people talking about how hard it is to kill. If you’ve been to a lawn and garden store, it’s the one they call, “that bushy leafed weed that ...

The weather for the past couple of weeks has allowed producers to make post-emergence herbicide applications. An issue they may be facing now is the presence of herbicide-resistant weeds. A number of ...

A marestail weed regrows after glyphosate application. Marestail, or horseweed, has become increasingly problematic for Indiana and Ohio soybean growers because it is resistant to common herbicides.

Dallas Peterson, Weed Management Specialist [email protected] Doug Shoup, Southeast Area Crops and Soils Specialist [email protected] Herbicide effectiveness on marestail depends largely on the stage of ...

URBANA — Widespread and often very dense populations of marestail (horseweed) in soybean fields last spring caught the attention of farmers and other weed management practitioners, with many coming to ...