In Benson County, North Dakota, where Palmer amaranth was first found in 2017, Scott Knocke, North Dakota State University agricultural extension agent, continues to teach farmers how to identify and ...

FARGO, N.D. -- South Dakota farmers have discovered Palmer Amaranth weed and North Dakota officials are urging farmers to keep a sharp eye for a "spawn of evil" during harvest. South Dakota State ...

LAWRENCE, Kansas –– A study featured in the most recent issue of the journal Weed Technology shows that post-harvest treatment of glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth can significantly reduce seed ...

Jason Bond has been battling Palmer amaranth for years. And he has this advice for Upper Midwest farmers encountering the weed for the first time. "If I was a farmer up there, and I see a small patch ...

Field researchers, farmers and input providers are making some progress in the battle against Palmer amaranth, an invasive pigweed fairly new to southern Idaho and southeastern Oregon. Promising tools ...

Public enemy No. 1 for corn and soybean farmers, the Palmer amaranth weed, has made new incursions into Minnesota by way of livestock feed. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture said this week that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MINNEAPOLIS — It’s a beast of a weed, creeping north into the Midwest from cotton country. Palmer amaranth can shoot up as high as 7 feet, and just one plant ...

This map of Indiana shows areas, colored in red, where the Palmer amaranth weed has been confirmed. (Purdue Department of Botany and Plant Pathology map) Download Photo WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Two ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Populations of the fast-spreading Palmer amaranth weed have been confirmed in five counties in northwestern Indiana, a Purdue Extension weed specialist says. At least 50 corn ...

The Palmer amaranth weed is pictured in Harrison County, Iowa, United States in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters March 31, 2017. Bob Hartzler/Iowa State University/Handout via REUTERS By ...

The University of Minnesota Extension Weed Science staff urges farmers to check fields for Palmer amaranth, an aggressive weed that can put corn and soybean crops at risk. A plant detected in a native ...

WINTERSET, IOWA (Reuters) - A U.S. government program designed to convert farmland to wildlife habitat has triggered the spread of a fast-growing weed that threatens to strangle crops in America's ...