Alan Leslie, Center Director
Maryland Agriculture Experiment Station
With grant funding from the Maryland Soybean Board, we have developed a new web-based app for selecting herbicides to use in soybean production. The goal for this new tool is to provide guidance in navigating different herbicide options with a simple user interface. The web app allows you to download a summary of your custom herbicide program as a PDF document for your records. Herbicide inputs can then be used to create your custom crop budgets using the web-based crop budget tool.
To use the app, users first select the major weed species from the lists that are the key management concerns on their farm. Choices of herbicides will then appear in three tables: burndown herbicides, pre-emergence herbicides, and post-emergence herbicides. These tables show herbicide options that are effective against at least one of the weed species selected. Users then use these tables to select their burndown, pre-emergence, and post-emergence herbicides, with the option to select between zero and three chemicals for each application. The page is then pre-populated with recommended rates and estimated costs, though actual rates and costs can be inputted by the user. After all of this information is entered, users can click the button to generate a report of everything they entered.
We are interested in gathering feedback and input about this new tool and ways to improve it in the future. After testing the new pesticide selection and crop budget tools, we would appreciate if you could take a few minutes to provide feedback through our online comment form. Feedback will be used to develop better tools in the future.
- Pesticide selection tool: https://awleslie.shinyapps.io/Pesticide_tool/
- Soybean crop budget tool: https://awleslie.shinyapps.io/budget_4/
- Comments: https://forms.gle/DhbXiSsLq5FfXpfG6
