Jeff Moon
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a weed and feed type program.
They've been struggling trying to get that mixed work.
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So weeds are competing with the crop for sunlight, for moisture, for nutrients.
So they're competing just like the crop is.
They're wanting to take that in and grow and complete their life cycle.
And so when the weeds are out there, they are impacting yield because they're taking resources away from the corn or the soybeans or wheat or whatever it is that you have out there.
And so we need to control them.
And it sounds maybe simple, but we've become so reliant on a few families of chemistry.
And so we've maybe developed some resistance situations here that are problematic.
Even if they're not resistant, you'll hear people talk about tough-to-control weeds.
And things evolve over time, right?
They figure a way around.
Mother Nature figures a way around things.
And so that herbicide just might not be as effective.
It might not be resistant, but it just might not be as effective as it once was.
So we need to come up with different herbicides.
We need to come up with different tank mixes.
maybe multiple hits with multiple modes of action at multiple times to get the control that we need.
If you ignore those things, that patch is going to expand.