CROP SCENE INVESTIGATION – 22: What’s the culprit in Bill’s sprayer tank?

by BERNARD TOBIN

Herbicides are great tools for growers to use in defending crops against yield-robbing weeds. But when crop injury occurs after spraying, the herbicide and seed technology is often at the top of the suspect list.

In some cases, however, the evidence just doesn’t add up and that’s when Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs’ Weed Management Lead, Mike Cowbrough, gets a call.

One such case involved a corn field where the grower and several crop
specialists believed glyphosate-tolerant corn had been damaged by an application of glyphosate.

Better Farming - January 2010