Old equipment can save days of labor for farms of a few acres or more. How do farmers control weeds? Learn about the advantages of mechanical weed control equipment for small farms. I was ...
The amount of consternation these and other weeds cause in fields across farm country is evident in ... with its new weed-control solution: Surtain herbicide. Surtain controls up to 79 broadleaf ...
Tillage is often seen as the organic alternative to chemical weed control. Tillage can be very effective at reducing weed populations, but can it be embraced as the solution to the weed problem? What ...
The best strategy for weed control in corn and soybeans is much like ... a big bite out of crop yield potential, says Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal field agronomist. Here are three tips he recommends ...
Comparing changes on separate farms, or even separating fields into halves ... Sometimes it is of interest to split large plots in order to compare the combined effect of two weed control practices.
A weed resistant to a key herbicide has been found in the UK for the first time, according to experts. Glyphosate is believed to be the most effective herbicide for clearing vegetation before planting ...
A new ‘unkillable’ weed impervious to even the strongest herbicide has been found in the UK for the first time. Italian ryegrass has been growing in several fields on a farm in Kent. Scientists have ...
But scientists still expect to detect more cases of randomly mutated Italian ryegrass on British farms in the short ... to shift towards more costly weed control methods and face losing access ...