Tag: weeds
Spring weeds: Dandelion tea, salad and lotion bars
Although most people consider dandelions weeds, the plant has been used as food and medicine for hundreds of years.
Palmer amaranth: Find it, stop it
Palmer amaranth is a member of the pigweed family and is spreading across the U.S.A.
Get ahead of the weeds in 2016
Having a weed management plan can be beneficial to maximizing your crop yield this year. OSU's weed experts, Mark Loux and Doug Doohan share a few pointers on weed management.
Ohio State offering free weed herbicide resistance screening
Members of the Ohio State University Weed Team are providing growers with free screenings of redroot pigweed, waterhemp and Palmer amaranth, as well as other weed species, this fall.
You do NOT want to find this weed in your fields
Time-elapse videos from Purdue University show need for pre-emergent herbicide to control Palmer amaranth.
If weeds could talk
Gardeners can learn a lot about their soil right now simply by looking at the weeds growing in it.
Poison hemlock: Prolific weed chokes plants, and can kill livestock
Poison hemlock is a weed that livestock owners cannot afford to ignore because all parts of this plant including leaves, stems and roots are poisonous when ingested.
OSU weed specialist: Do legwork to stop spread of herbicide-resistant weeds
COLUMBUS -- Ohio growers, agribusinesses and Ohio State University weed scientists will need to work over the next decade to prevent a weed known...
Resistance found in weeds could limit herbicide’s future usefulness
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Even as crops resistant to 2,4-D herbicide are being developed, populations of weeds are also developing a resistance. A 2,4-D-resistant variety...
Glyphosate-resistant ‘superweeds’ may be less susceptible to diseases
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Scientists searching for clues to understand how superweeds obtain resistance to the popular herbicide glyphosate may have been missing a...
