Tag: Steve Li
Alabama Cotton: Gramoxone – A Good Substitute for Glyphosate? Mar 18, 2022
Due to the high price and short supply of glyphosate, many row crop growers are interested in using Gramoxone or generic paraquat products to burndown cover crops and winter weeds […]
Southeast Cotton: Preemergence Herbicide Treatments Behind the Planter Apr 21, 2021
Cotton planting will be in full swing in just another week or two. One thing that I cannot emphasize enough is to START CLEAN (free of weeds), particularly in no-till […]
Alabama Cotton: PRE Treatments Behind the Planter Apr 13, 2021
Cotton planting will be in full swing in just another week or two. One thing that I cannot emphasize enough is to START CLEAN (free of weeds), particularly in no-till […]
Alabama Cotton: Ryegrass Burndown Without Roundup Apr 13, 2021
Glyphosate-resistant ryegrass is getting more prevalent in Alabama row crop fields, particularly in no-till and strip-till fields where tillage is not applied intensively. This problem usually starts with a few […]
Alabama: Dicamba – Which Glyphosate Products Can Be Used New Formulations? Mar 2, 2021
Alabama Extension weed scientist Dr. Steve Li gives an update on which glyphosate products that can be used along with the new dicamba formulations.
Alabama: Cotton, Soybean Scouting School Goes Digital, July 24 Jul 7, 2020
The Alabama Cooperative Extension System Cotton Scouting School is iconic. For 60 years, Extension scientists taught the Scouting School in person and hands-on. But the 61st Cotton Scouting School is going […]
Alabama Cotton: 10 Non-Dicamba Weed Control Considerations Jun 17, 2020
The dicamba ban from Ninth Circuit Court caught many growers off guard. Some of them may have booked enough Xtendimax, Engenia and FeXapan for planned applications but many of them […]
Alabama Cotton, Soybeans: Current Weed Control Options Following Dicamba Ban Jun 9, 2020
Alabama producers with dicamba resistant crops in the ground are struggling to come to terms with a constantly changing situation surrounding a California Circuit Court ruling. California’s Ninth Circuit Court […]
Alabama Peanuts: Weed Control on a Budget Apr 23, 2020
Row crop commodity prices have been very low due to COVID-19 and the lack of demand. Peanut prices were at $418 a ton in the second week of April. To […]
Alabama Cotton: Dirt Cheap Weed Control Apr 15, 2020
Cotton commodity prices have plummeted over the last weeks and are now at or well below the cost of production. Looking for ways to survive, some growers are thinking about […]