Farmers look at equipment on display at the Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day at the Iowa State University Horticulture Research Station in central Iowa on August 20, 2025. Weeds are a ...

Weed management is a key concern for any farmer. But it’s at the top of the list for those growing organic field crops, seeking or maintaining organic certification. Without synthetic pesticides to ...

Fluorescent seedlings will help a robotic cultivator target weeds in planted fields like this one in the Salinas Valley. Controlling weeds could soon become more effective, affordable and sustainable ...

The first driverless cultivator rolled 200 feet down a row of tomatoes at UC Davis test fields one summer morning, uprooting weeds with wheels of fingers as it traveled, turned around at a spot ...

Some of the prevented planting fields are just being looked at again as everyone gets caught up on spraying the crop fields and is now looping back to start managing their PP. In going back to those ...

Controlling weeds could soon become more effective, affordable and sustainable for vegetable growers in California and beyond, thanks to a system under development at UC Davis that will help plants ...

Some growers in western Canada have considered using inter-row cultivation as an alternative to herbicides. There has been little research in western Canada on inter-row cultivation in our commonly ...

MSU faculty researchers, from left to right, Brian Pieralisi, Daniel Chesser and Wes Lowe analyze cotton in a field at the university’s MAFES R. R. Foil Plant Science Research Center. (Photo by David ...

Through some strange quirk of physics, every year the rows in my garden seem to get a little longer, the weeds’ roots get a little deeper and my hoe’s handle gets a little harder. Some would say this ...