Getting a new herbicide approved may take 12 to 15 years and cost over $300 million, and that is just for the successful herbicides. The last new herbicide modes of action occurred about 40 years ago, ...

Winter rain is good for our gardens and lawns, but it’s also good for those pesky weeds. As soon as the weather warms up and the days get longer, weed seeds germinate with a vengeance. This would not ...

If you’re evaluating weed-control options in soybeans this season, take a look at new Tendovo herbicide from Syngenta. It is now approved for use by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and ...

In most cases, herbicide application should not be considered as a first option for weed control. Hand weeding, hoeing, and mulching are tedious but effective methods of weed control. Sometimes, ...

It has been said several times in this column that crop production is mainly about fighting weeds and pests. Weeds are ...

Vegetable growers use herbicides to kill weeds to prevent crop loss. Meanwhile, a University of Florida researcher is using artificial intelligence to reduce herbicide sprayed on crops. "We are ...

Every day, farms across the country use a potentially cancer-causing chemical that is in the world’s most common weedkillers. And data shows that it’s most used in the Midwest and parts of the South.

Gardeners, we have now weathered our first real cool snap of the season. If but for only a few days, evening temperatures became downright cold in my opinion. So, go ahead and roll your eyes, cause ...

SALINAS, Calif. — The smell of burnt vegetation wafted through a lettuce field here one recent summer morning as nearly 200 farmers, academics and engineers gathered to witness the future of automated ...