Palmer pigweed: start your engines

Palmer pigweed -- now highly resistant to glyphosate in a troubling number of areas -- already has a head start on cotton in parts of Georgia this season, according to an advisory from Stanley Culpepper, Extension weed specialist and a key figure in bringing glyphosate resistance issues into th epublic view.

"Palmer amaranth has emerged and is growing rapidly in many fields across the state," Culpepper noted in Monday's Georgia Cotton News. "It is essential that growers control this pest prior to or at planting."

He included application tips, product options and rates.

Click here for Culpepper's report.