UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Farm managers in the mid-Atlantic region looking for the latest, research-based information on managing weeds in corn, sorghum, soybeans, small grains and forages can turn to the 2024 edition of the Mid-Atlantic Weed Control Guide: Essentials for Agronomic Crops, now available for purchase from Penn State Extension.
Featuring updated herbicide tables from the 2023-24 edition of the Penn State Agronomy Guide, this condensed, quick-reference manual highlights basic information about herbicide-use recommendations and herbicide effectiveness on common weed species in the region.
The guide contains essential tables about herbicide recommendations and general use guidelines for corn, sorghum, soybean, small grains, forages and farmstead.
It also offers herbicide effectiveness ratings on problem weeds such as henbit, horsenettle, horseweed/marestail, palmer amaranth and waterhemp, common pokeweed, common ragweed, giant ragweed, annual ryegrass, broadleaf and curly dock, johnsongrass and shattercane, lambsquarters, milkweed and hemp dogbane, Canada thistle, and other species.
Penn State Extension produced this publication in cooperation with the University of Delaware, the University of Maryland, Rutgers University, Virginia Tech and West Virginia University.
The Penn State Mid-Atlantic Weed Control Guide: Essentials for Agronomic Crops, which can be previewed and purchased online, is available in print ($10) or as a digital download ($8). A bundle that includes both versions can be purchased for $18. More information about this guide is available at https://extension.psu.edu/
–Alexandra McLaughlin, Penn State University