Farmers are monitoring the potential for herbicide carryover this year following last year’s dry conditions.

Farmers in the West Central, South Central and Southwest areas of the Province had a very high to extreme risk of herbicide carryover this spring.

Crops Extension Specialist Shannon Chant says in order to avoid crop injury it’s important to have really good field records so you know what herbicides were used on what land:

"There's also a couple of pages in the 2018 guide to crop protection, it's a 77 and 78," she said. "It actually has a table of cropping restrictions for herbicides. It's also best to check the label that is the most up to date and most current information, but that can also be a resource or a starting point as well."

Chant says when it comes to applying herbicides this year it’s important that farmers are using clean, clear water.

She says farmers may want to look at getting the mineral content in some of their open dugouts checked since evaporation of water in the dugouts can be a factor :

"If you are using a dugout for example or anything open for your source for spraying, the concentrations that you had tested for a couple years ago may have changed," she said. "It's good to get that checked. It's not too much of an expensive test and you'll know for sure that your products are working properly."

She notes hard water can also reduce the activity of glyphosate and 2,4-D.

Chant adds areas that received that late spring moisture are in a better situation than they were a couple of months ago.