Palmer amaranth - voted the most troublesome weed in the United States by the Weed Science Society of America - has made its way to North Dakota. The weed, also known as Palmer pigweed, recently was ...

The University of Idaho Sugar Beet Conference is slated from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. Dec. 4 at Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise. Amalgamated Sugar, a grower-owned cooperative that operates processing ...

Meet Palmer Pigweed. Palmer’s a hearty fellow. He’s capable of growing 2 to 4 inches per day until he’s 8 feet tall. His weed stalk is as thick as a man’s wrist and tough enough to damage farm ...

NORTH MANKATO - Tennessee farmers thought Roundup was a white knight riding in to save them from ALS weed resistance. Instead, Roundup was a loan that's coming due with interest. That's how University ...

Pigweed patrols are a devil of a farming practice. In the form of chopping, pulling, or eyeballing and marking, hand weeding is a costly headache, but total reliance on a shrinking arsenal of ...

For years growers have been hearing about this super weed, nicknamed Satin, that has been infesting southern and midwestern states for the past 12 years. They’ve heard horror stories about how it can ...

Ducks are a hunter’s sweetest dream, but can be a farmer’s nightmare akin to flying time bombs expelling rapid-fire payloads of resistant weed seed. Wonder where the next pigweed outbreak will come ...

This summer, we have gotten a few calls about Palmer amaranth and waterhemp, two pigweed species that unfortunately are becoming more common. These two pigweeds are difficult to control, mostly due to ...

Palmer Pigweed, a common weed found in cotton and soybean fields, was once fairly easy to control. Such fields, however, are now infested with the weed, which has become resistant to the herbicide ...

Palmer amaranth, aka careless-weed: Topping out at up to 10 feet tall, mechanical cultivation, flame-weeding and hand-pulling are the only effective means of control ...