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Pigweed, sometimes known as amaranth, can cause trouble in all kinds of places. Follow our tips to prevent and eliminate this ...
When Jason Smith was a boy in the 1980s, a farmer could drive into town, stop at a dealership and buy a seemingly endless variety of Bush Hog blades. Everyone he knew mowed field edges and had a ...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: There's a weed in Arkansas that can put a farmer out of business. It's called pigweed. You get one plant in your field, and that one plant can produce more than a million seeds.
Arkansas farmers are expanding pigweed No Tolerance zones, while warm temperatures prompt precocious pigweeds to produce seedheads months early, said Ken Smith, extension weed scientist for the ...
Pigweed is a weed that's changed life for practically every cotton farmer in Georgia. One expert says if you can't manage it, you won't be picking your cotton field. And now a quick preview of a ...
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 ...