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Bayer’s Integrated Weed Management (IWM) Program is a global approach to enhance agricultural productivity and secure food supplies in the long term by offering customized solutions for weed control and strongly promoting best management practices more

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Training for Integrated Weed Management in Argentina

Training in Munro, Argentina, focused on the field´s main challenge: to control the weeds that attack the crops in a sustainable way.

Bayer and LB-Track sign on partnership

In Latin America Bayer, and Chilean company LB-Track joined forces to develop an innovative method for the rapid detection of herbicide-resistant weeds.

The 26th Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society

The Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society hosted its 26th conference to celebrate 50 years of successful work.

“We invest in finding the next generation of weed management systems”

Bayer is boosting its activities in herbicide research / Integrated Weed Management program promotes sustainable weed control / Working cross-functionally to tackle global weed resistance is key.

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Stories from the field

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"Because of rotation our yields are phenomenal"

Scientists estimate half the fields on the Southern Alberta prairies have Group 1 herbicide-resistant wild oats. But cereal and cow-calf farmer Roy Newman has fixed the problem. How did he go about it?

The sun rises on crop diversity

Maize (corn) monocultures are a common sight on Hungary’s Northern Great Plain. But when Panicum riparium raised its ugly head in 2010, Istvan Szolomajer started rotating his crops to tackle this resistance threat.

Turkey’s female pharmacist-farmer

A female farmer with a degree in pharmacy: Özden Karaevli’s detailed knowledge of chemistry gives her an added advantage in finding solutions to weed resistance.

“México es maíz”

In Mexico’s main corn-growing region herbicide resistance has been causing concern for several years. Samuel Sahagun explains what he’s doing to tackle this challenge.

“No farm is an island”

With nearly 200 years of farming experience the Theron family has never stopped the exchange of information with South African farmers.

Helping herbicides through harvest weed seed control

As a plant biology professor and an agronomist, Steve Powles knows from personal experience how troubling resistant weeds are for farmers.

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Introducing the Bayer IWM program

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Diversity in Weed Management

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See why controlling weeds is a global challenge

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Weed Resistance Competence Center