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FBN® Pest Report - June 2024
With planting nearing completion, farmers’ focus now turns to proactively identifying and addressing potential threats to the successful development of emerging crops. Understanding the location and prevalence of these weeds, insects, and plant diseases — and where they may be headed next — is essential to protecting your fields.
This pest update, which utilizes FBN® member-contributed data, is the first in a new FBN series intended to help farmers make informed decisions about how best to protect their fields from such pressures. The report is based on survey responses collected from FBN members between June 6-10, 2024, which were then anonymized and analyzed to assess which pests farmers are most concerned about for the 2024 season.
FBN will continue to collect data on the presence and severity of different pest pressures across the U.S and share those insights throughout the summer.
Top Weed Concerns by State
Top Insect Concerns by State
Top Disease Concerns by State
Top 5 Overall Pest Concerns
Waterhemp
Pigweed / Palmer Amaranth
Tar Spot
Giant Ragweed
Grey Leaf Spot
States are included on the maps above when the volume of responses from that state provides a high degree of statistical confidence. If your state is not represented, it indicates insufficient responses.
How to Address the Top 5 Pest Concerns
Waterhemp
Pre-emergence
Pre-emergence and Burndown
Post-emergence
For Enlist Herbicide Traited Corn
Pigweed / Palmer Amaranth
Pre-emergence
Willowood Sulfen 4SC or Willowood Sulfen Met (for corn that is tolerant to PPO herbicides)
Post-emergence
Burndown
Tar Spot
Trivapro (applied between R1 and R3)
Giant Ragweed
Pre-emergence
Post-emergence
Willowoood Glypho 5 (in glyphosate-tolerant crops)
Willowood Glufosinate 280SL + GCS Atrazine 4L* (in glufosinate-tolerant crops)
Dicamba DMA 4 Value Pick (when applied following a pre-emergence herbicide)
Burndown
Grey Leaf Spot
How to Manage Weed Pressures
Click the links below to learn how to identify and manage specific weeds with detailed agronomic notes and product recommendations.
How to Manage Insect Pressures
Click the links below to learn how to identify and manage specific weeds with detailed agronomic notes and product recommendations.
How to Manage Disease Pressures
Click the links below to learn how to identify and manage specific weeds with detailed agronomic notes and product recommendations.
Proactively Manage Pest Pressures This Season with FBN
Given the threats these weed, insect, and disease pressures can pose to a farmer’s production and bottom line, it’s important to proactively address them. FBN offers a diverse range of effective — and cost-effective — crop protection products to help farmers manage such pests.
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