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The 10th annual Red River Crops Conference, themed Planning for Success, is set for Jan. 18-19 in the Childress Event Center.

The Red River Crops Conference is held to enhance the profitability of farms and ranchers in southwest Oklahoma and the Texas rolling plains.

Getting back to the basics is critical to managing herbicide resistant weeds. Weeds resistant to herbicides are a way of life for farmers, one more concern to complicate an already complex production system. But options exist not only to manage resistance but also to reduce the size of the weed seed bank. “Resistance is here to stay,” said Adam Hixson, BASF technical service representative for Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, during a recent media update on managing herbicide resista...