To maximize efficacy, apply pre-emergence herbicides at or immediately after planting but before crop and weed emergence.

This week while out checking the garden, I noticed many of the youngest leaves on a few of my tomato plants were twisted and their leaf veins were growing into weird patterns. These telltale symptoms ...

The increasing use of chemical herbicides is often blamed for the declining plant biodiversity in farms. However, other factors beyond herbicide exposure may be more important to species diversity, ...

“It’s been a bad year for milfoil on Minnesota lakes—except on Grays Bay and Phelps Bay on Lake Minnetonka,” KSTP Eyewitness News 5 in Minneapolis-St. Paul reported recently. The reason for the Grays ...

All of the leaves on some of my tomato plants have curled down, except a few twisted in all directions. They were growing great for a while. It looks contagious because they’re all together. What is ...

Nature’s own herbicides – allelopathic chemicals made by some plants to kill others – are getting tryouts for future roles in agriculture. The first auditions, though, are not performed on acres of ...

Researchers have discovered a fine-tuning mechanism involved in plant root growth that has them questioning whether a popular herbicide may have unintended consequences, causing some plants to need ...

While I'm not sure there is a quick and easy explanation about the use of herbicides because of ongoing changes in the sciences, I will give it a shot in explaining the basics. An herbicide is any ...

A demonstration trial of methods to control the invasive winged burning bush was conducted in the forest at the Pinney Purdue Ag Center. The treatments consisted of four different herbicides and two ...

With summer upon us, you are hopefully finding your vegetable plants in good health and in full production. It does seem most years, however, that the tomato typically becomes infected with one or ...