An agronomist in South Dakota says many Midwestern fields are blanketed in the color purple this spring. Darren Hefty, who is a co-host of Ag PhD Radio, says those flower-looking weeds are actually henbit and they can pose a threat to yields. “It will just cover fields and it’s all purple,” he said. “I remember […]
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