A quick start to planting in many parts of the United States and Canada this spring will likely increase the need for a quick start to weed control, according to Greg Dahl, Weed Science Society of ...

URBANA, Ill. - For vegetable growers, weeds can mean lost income from reduced yield and foreign plant matter contaminating the harvest. But for many crops, particularly vegetable legumes, weed ...

ST. PAUL -- Controlling weeds can be a battle for corn and soybean farmers, but organic producers face special challenges and higher risks. Weed management for organic crop production falls into two ...

LANGDON, N.D. — Diseases, an insect and a weed, all which have the potential to cause severe crop losses showed up — some for the first time — in northeast North Dakota fields during the 2022 growing ...

When a non-native organism enters a new habitat, that species is considered invasive, and it can wreak havoc on plants, animals, and other creatures that are used to living without it. In Australia, ...

Walsh also found that crop competition causes weeds to grow more upright and retain significantly more of their seeds in the upper crop canopy. "This modified growth pattern makes it possible for more ...

2024 was a challenging season for weed control. Severe weather caused application delays across the Corn Belt, making an already difficult job even tougher. Luckily, a new solution is available to ...

Conventional crop–weed segmentation models classify every pixel in an image as crop, weed, or background, usually using deep learning. These systems support targeted herbicide application and ...

Many growers have had success with Enlist E3 ® soybeans and Enlist ® herbicides, and now, growers can include Enlist ® corn in their crop rotations. Enlist corn features leading insect trait ...

Harvest weed seed control (HWSC) is an Australian innovation, developed to target high proportions of weed seed retained at crop maturity by many major weed species. There is the potential, however, ...