weeds
03/15/2018
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By Frances Bloomfield
Evaluation of the economic impact and productivity performance of sheep grazing weeds in coffee plantations compared to pastures
A 2017 study published in Agroforestry Systems found that sheep could be utilized as a practical and beneficial method of controlling weeds at coffee plantations. Testing was conducted 40 days before coffee was harvested from a plantation in the municipality of Comapa in Veracruz, Mexico. The researchers used 32 male Pelibuey lambs that they divided […]
09/21/2017
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By Jhoanna Robinson
Researchers share how to conquer herbicide-resistant superweeds that threaten the food supply in the Midwest
In the latest edition of Weed Science, researchers shared new knowledge about how to manage the growth of herbicide-resistant kochia, a weed that takes nutrients from both dryland and irrigated crops across the Great Plains. Kochia usually starts to sprout in late February or early March before the emergence of other summer annual weed species. It […]
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