Cultivating flowering plants for pollinator gardens, commercial farms, or home landscapes often relies on the use of ...

When wet conditions keep equipment out of the field, growers often lose the opportunity to apply herbicides at the ideal time ...

Waterhemp’s growing resistance to PPO and dicamba is spreading, forcing farmers to rethink weed control strategies.

Sharpen herbicide for corn and soybeans drives burndown three to five times faster than 2, 4-D or glyphosate. Its rapid ...

Weed-and-feed products aren’t all the same.

FARGO — My email inbox is usually upbeat. Sure, there are questions about yellow, chlorotic maples and tomatoes with blossom end rot, but nothing is as disheartening as hearing of herbicide misuse ...

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.

Known for its long emergence, rapid growth, prolific seed production and ability to develop resistance to herbicides, Palmer amaranth can be a farmer’s worst enemy. Until about a decade ago, Palmer ...

I’ve discussed the dangers of pesticides, fungicides and herbicides in previous articles, but after speaking to numerous acquaintances recently, I was startled to learn how few people actually realize ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Should you use an herbicide to kill invasive plants? In response to recent columns about invasive plants in our Northeast Ohio gardens and how to fight them, reader Doug in eastern ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Weed killers prevent unwanted plants like crabgrass and dandelions from invading ...

Over the past 15 years, farmers around the world have planted ever larger tracts of genetically engineered crops. According to the USDA, in 2012 more than 93 percent of soy planted was "herbicide ...