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April 29, 2026 
Besides new herbicide tools going into the toolbox, crop protection company representatives also foresee new ag technologies such as smart tech systems coming to help with resistant weeds. Specifically, says Matt Geiger, Agronomic Service Representative at Syngenta, spot spraying using artificial intelligence (AI)-controlled systems such as John Deere’s See & Spray could help control resistance.
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“This targeted system could really be a big help,” says Geiger. “The applicator could put down a full rate of our Storen herbicide across the whole field and then spot spray with a dose of dicamba to really keep the weeds off balance.”
Lynn Justesen, Technical Service Lead at UPL, agrees.
“Working with targeted spraying options should really help going forward,” says Justesen. “Using these AI-driven systems, you could really apply some maximum rates of herbicide delivery on a nozzle-by-nozzle basis. That should provide some excellent weed control.”
In addition, Eric Scherder, Crop Protection Marketing Leader at Corteva Agriscience, believes field modeling using AI systems will be a help to ag retailers, custom applicators, and growers in the not-too-distant future.
“AI can do better and faster modeling based on historic data than any human could,” says Scherder. “These can then be used to make future predictions that will really allow the grower to mine their own data to vastly improve their weed control methods.”
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