Nautilus

10 min. di lettura

Driving down a grid road in central Saskatchewan, a machine that looks like a giant insect approaches me in a cloud of dust. The cab, hanging 8 feet above the road, is suspended by tires at least 6 feet tall, with wing-like appendages folded along ea

Farmer's Weekly

1 min. di lettura

Researchers from the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative (AHRI) have detected the world’s first population of glyphosateresistant capeweed in Western Australia. Capeweed (Arctotheca calendula), which originates from South Africa, where it is c

Garden Gate

1 min. di lettura

What it looks like There are a number of species of fleabanes. They all have numerous asterlike rays of typically white to pinkish petals (up to 1 inch in diameter) surrounding flat yellow disks. Common, or Philadelphia, fleabane blooms in spring. Sp

Futurity

2 min. di lettura

A new device uses microwaves to control weeds, rather than herbicides. Placing some freshly picked nettles on a plate, Graham Brodie of the University of Melbourne, closes the door to the microwave oven and hits start. There’s some popping and splutt

Farms and Farm Machinery

1 min. di lettura

Australian AgTech startup Growave has secured a $900,000 seed investment to commercialise technology that, it says, could revolutionise the agriculture industry and remove the need to use harmful chemicals to control weeds. The Growave technology, in

Farmer's Weekly

2 min. di lettura

As farmers, we should make every effort to learn from our mistakes. In fact, we should go out of our way to turn our errors to our advantage. Some mistakes are very obvious; for example, not reading a crop product label properly and spraying herbicid

Farms and Farm Machinery

1 min. di lettura

James Cook University will oversee the development of a smart weed spraying robot that could reduce herbicide usage on sugarcane farms in Great Barrier Reef catchment areas by at least 80 per cent. The two-year project, funded by a $400,000 grant thr

Farmer's Weekly

3 min. di lettura

A crop expert pointed out that farmers’ past experience and knowledge of their local conditions should enable them to choose the correct chemicals for both weed and insect control. Many a farmer is having to slash input costs. Some, in fact, have to

Organic NZ

1 min. di lettura

Members of Extinction Rebellion Ōtautahi donned bee suits to oppose Christchurch City Council’s proposal to return to spraying more glyphosate. The ‘bees’ opposed the use of all harmful sprays because of ‘insectageddon’ – the alarming rates of insect

Organic NZ

2 min. di lettura

Kill your weeds fast, the natural way! Kiwicare is giving away six packs of Weed Weapon Natural Power in a convenient ready to use one-litre pack, and a 500 ml concentrate. Weed Weapon Natural Power is a fast-acting, natural herbicide, certified orga

Amateur Gardening

4 min. di lettura

WE all know the saying: a weed is simply a plant in the wrong place. But for most of us, ‘the wrong place’ is our borders or pots, or cracks in the paving slabs – in fact, pretty much anywhere in the garden where they are detrimental to the wellbeing

Farmer's Weekly

2 min. di lettura

Because crops, farming environments and farmers’ economic circumstances vary so widely, there is no truly effective one-size-fits-all solution to control weeds or reduce herbicide resistance. The situation is made even more problematic by the globali

The Gardener Magazine

2 min. di lettura

Combat broadleaf lawn weeds either by manual removal or by spot treating with a selective herbicide. In extreme cases, it might be necessary to do a blanket application over the whole lawn. This should be done twice. The first application will kill o

Farmer's Weekly

1 min. di lettura

The Insecticide Resistance Action Committee defines pesticide resistance as “a heritable change in the sensitivity of a pest population that is reflected in the repeated failure of a product to achieve the expected level of control”. In other words,

Country Life

3 min. di lettura

WEEDS are fashionable. Everyone, we are told, has a favourite weed and tolerates its presence in the garden. Buttercups—one of the most pernicious weeds —were a common component of several prize-winning gardens at Chelsea last year. Horticultural cha

Farmer's Weekly

1 min. di lettura

Avocado growers are facing reduced export options due to shrinking airfreight capacity, according to the latest data from Auckland Airport. In August, the traditional start of the avocado exporting season in New Zealand, airfreight volumes declined b

Farmer's Weekly

1 min. di lettura

Three species of Conyza spp can be a problem in South Africa: Conyza bonariensis (flax-leaf fleabane); C. canadensis (horseweed fleabane); and C. sumatrensis (tall fleabane). Flax-leaf fleabane can grow up to 1,2m tall and has side branches longer th

Popular Science

3 min. di lettura

These bees probably have no idea their health depends on tiny intestinal bacteria. Pexels For more than a decade, millions of bees around the world have been dying mysteriously. This week, scientists may have found another clue as to why—linking the

NPR

6 min. di lettura

Texas is one of the largest producers of wine in the U.S. But the grapevines in the High Plains are facing a threat that's causing them to twist and wither. And it's coming from the cotton fields.

NPR

2 min. di lettura

As many as 2 million acres of soybeans may have been harmed by a popular weedkiller drifting into neighboring fields. Arkansas' proposed ban on the herbicide, dicamba, is awaiting final approval.

Futurity

1 min. di lettura

Exposure to glyphosate—the world’s most widely used, broad-spectrum herbicide and the primary ingredient in the weed killer Roundup—increases the risk of some cancers by more than 40 percent, according to new research. Various reviews and internation

Farmer's Weekly

5 min. di lettura

In a previous article on the encroachment of sweet thorn (Vachellia karroo) in the Eastern Cape (see FW, 31 July 2020), it was stated that the encroachment of sweet thorn and other bush species is adversely affecting the production potential of large

Futurity

2 min. di lettura

Farmers fighting weeds with herbicide may also be unintentionally killing bacteria that benefit the soil and guard against fungus, new research suggests. Researchers found that using the weed-killing herbicide glyphosate negatively affected Pseudomon

Organic NZ

1 min. di lettura

The latest application Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has received is for a GE corn, MON 87429, produced by Bayer (now the owner of Monsanto). If approved, the corn will be used in a wide range of foods. It is resistant to the toxic her

NPR

2 min. di lettura

Angela Merkel chided her agriculture minister for flipping his vote on use of the weedkiller glyphosate — a move that angered German allies and endangered Merkel's coalition-building efforts at home.

NPR

1 min. di lettura

Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin posit that glyphosate destroys specialized gut bacteria in bees, leaving them more susceptible to infection and death from harmful bacteria.

NPR

2 min. di lettura

A weedkiller called dicamba, which farmers hoped could banish herbicide-resistant weeds, has become a plague itself in Arkansas. The state's regulators just voted to ban it for 120 days.

Amateur Gardening

4 min. di lettura

I CAN’T see the point of using a weedkiller to tackle annual weeds, unless you have a huge infestation. It’s almost as easy to pull them out or to hoe them as it is to spray, and they make great compost or will feed the soil like a green manure once

The Journal of the Texas Trophy Hunters

6 min. di lettura

We have likened deer management to a three-legged stool: one leg representing habitat; another, populations; and the last one, people management. We chose a three-legged stool because if you remove one leg, you will fall on your behind. So, any white

Farmer's Weekly

1 min. di lettura

The 2020 LAMMA Show took place in Birmingham in the UK on 7 and 8 January. Among the displays were the winners of this year’s online and future innovation categories, both of which provide software solutions to challenges facing farmers worldwide. In