More specifically, planting soybean over a cereal rye cover crop demonstrates an effective practice to both produce soybean and to suppress two problematic Amaranthus weed species: waterhemp and ...

Knowing how devastating Palmer amaranth can be, it’s important that farmers learn how to identify and manage the weed. Scouting fields to determine which weeds are most prevalent is a key step ...

Ask corn growers what their No. 1 weed problem is today, and it’s likely at least one of these three – Palmer amaranth (pigweed), waterhemp or common ragweed – will be listed in their response.

With the rapid increase in herbicide-resistant waterhemp and Palmer amaranth populations in multiple U.S. states, non-chemical weed control methods, such as cover cropping, are gaining interest ...