Leanne Freitag, Bayer Crop Science agronomic solutions advisor, holds a corn plant sample to help producers understand how to stage correctly during the herbicide injury scenario discussion at the Ontario Weed Tour at the Elora Research Station on July 16, 2025. Photo: Diana Martin

Staging slip leads to corn damage after Dicamba spray

Ontario Weed Tour highlights how timing, cold snaps and late spraying contribute to herbicide damage in corn

The Ontario Weed Tour at the Elora Research Station discussed how plant staging accuracy, timing and weather conditions can significantly impact crop health, yield and limit potential herbicide application injury.










WEEDit has created a spot spraying product that determines where weeds are located before spraying.

Solving spray problems with new technology

Sprayer innovations can help reduce herbicide resistance by making sure lethal doses are delivered to weeds

How farmers spray their crops — not just what they spray — could be contributing to growing weed resistance across Canada. Technology is emerging, though, that can help overcome common […] Read more

Tom Wolf gets a look at the Simon Innovations Accu-Volume system.

Colour your guessing glass gauge gone

An Ontario company wants to use a digital gauge to replace visual gauges on sprayers

The high-clearance sprayer represents some of the most advanced agricultural technology that we have today — except for that obsolete guessing glass gauge we depend on to sight-estimate liquid volume […] Read more