Difficult Year For Weed Control

2021 was a difficult year for weed control.

Kim Brown-Livingston is the province's weed specialist.

"We were so very dry at the beginning. We didn't have a lot of weeds come up and then after that we got little flushes of rain and so some of the weeds were coming but it was really difficult for guys to spray...Then we had a terrible time in spray season. We did not have a lot a good days for spraying. We either had high winds or we had a lot of temperature extremes."

She reminds farmers to be on the lookout for waterhemp.

"We are finding pockets of it and it is a Tier 1 noxious weed. It must be destroyed, we can't let it go to seed. It has to be destroyed, there's no exception to that. These are terrible weeds. Tier 1 weeds are very competitive weeds that can cause an awful lot of economic loss and especially something like a waterhemp if it gets into our crop land and really limits growing crops like soybeans and corn and sunflowers, because a lot of our herbicide options are limited in those crops."