The threat of Palmer amaranth has resurged for farmers who plant Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) plots. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) reminds farmers to take critical steps to ...

CANBY, Minn. - Mark Lacek is no trouble-maker, but he's no pushover either. This past fall, he declined to accept a waiver of liability for a seed company that supplied him with cover crop seed in ...

Many plants reach the peak of perfection during the cooler and shorter days of autumn. One species of underused plants that clamor for attention now are members of the amaranth family. Made up of ...

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 ...

Recently published research in the journal Weed Science shows that planting soybeans in a green, living cover crop provides effective control for some of the nation's most troublesome weeds when ...

The latest survey conducted by the Weed Science Society of America shows that Palmer amaranth is the hardest to control weed in grass crops, while foxtail species are the most prevalent. More than 315 ...

Weeds like Palmer amaranth make farming harder and less profitable, and available herbicides are becoming less effective. For scientists to find solutions, they first need to know their enemy. A study ...

New chromosome-level genomes have been published for three troublesome Amaranthus weed species: Palmer amaranth and redroot and smooth pigweed. The advancement represents a major leap in scientists’ ...