Tag: herbicide

Roadbuilding
3 strategies for balancing safety and roadside weed control
Balancing public and crew safety while maintaining effective roadside weed control is an ongoing challenge for DOT managers. Rights of way can be dangerous places when weeds obstruct sightlines, compromise road surfaces and provide fuel for wildfires. To learn more about solutions to vegetation management that meet safety challenges, I spoke with several roadside management […]
August 14, 2014
In Delaware, Chip Rosan (left) and Brian O’Neill (right) work closely with their DuPont representative Mark Rice to find the right weed-control programs to match local challenges.
Roadbuilding
5 Ways to Maximize Your Vegetation Management Budget
Tighter vegetation management budgets call for hard-working strategies. It’s a common conundrum — as challenges controlling invasive weeds and brush increase, vegetation management budgets decrease. Couple that with overstretched roadside crews and rising operational costs and you have an epic war with weeds. To learn how vegetation managers are prevailing against these challenges, I spoke […]
January 31, 2014
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Roadbuilding
DuPont Crop Protection introduces web-based learning series
The DuPont Crop Protection land management business unit last month introduced the first three in a series of learning modules that address stewardship best practices for day-to-day herbicide, insecticide and fungicide use. The training modules offer information about pesticide product stewardship and discuss topics including emergency response and preparedness, regulatory compliance and recordkeeping. The three […]
July 5, 2013
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Roadbuilding
Integrating Roadside Vegetation and Erosion Control
Safety and the mowing-herbicide-beautification-erosion control-culvert maintenance mix
March 6, 2013
Washington State DOT – a leader in roadside vegetation management – defines different zones in the roadside, each with a different management strategy.
Roadbuilding
Highway Contractor
What happens when budge shortfalls cut back vegetation management?
March 20, 2012
The grass and weeds growing along roadsides may be a constant, but who’s responsible for controlling that vegetation is anything but – especially in this era of dwindling agency budgets.
Roadbuilding
Highway Contractor
What happens when budge shortfalls cut back vegetation management?
March 20, 2012
The grass and weeds growing along roadsides may be a constant, but who’s responsible for controlling that vegetation is anything but – especially in this era of dwindling agency budgets.
Roadbuilding
Highway Contractor
What happens when budge shortfalls cut back vegetation management?
March 20, 2012
The grass and weeds growing along roadsides may be a constant, but who’s responsible for controlling that vegetation is anything but – especially in this era of dwindling agency budgets.
Roadbuilding
Highway Contractor
New products can benefit appearances . . . and budgets.
September 7, 2011
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Roadbuilding
Highway Contractor
New products can benefit appearances . . . and budgets.
September 7, 2011
Jungle Untitled 1
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