More specifically, planting soybean over a cereal rye cover crop demonstrates an effective practice to both produce soybean and to suppress two problematic Amaranthus weed species: waterhemp and ...

Knowing how devastating Palmer amaranth can be, it’s important that farmers learn how to identify and manage the weed. Scouting fields to determine which weeds are most prevalent is a key step ...

Pigweed has already infested more than 7,000 acres of southern Idaho cropland and is taking a heavy toll on yields ...

Help can’t arrive fast enough for corn and soybean farmers who routinely battle Palmer amaranth (pigweed) or waterhemp, especially those with resistance to currently available herbicide ...

With the rapid increase in herbicide-resistant waterhemp and Palmer amaranth populations in multiple U.S. states, non-chemical weed control methods, such as cover cropping, are gaining interest ...