Weeds, those pests in your fields, become a valuable tool for testing your soil. Most fields have weeds. They are there day and night, rain or shine, experiencing the forces that shape plant growth.

I admit it, I am terrible at weeding. With the winter rains, my yard turns into a lush garden of plants I never planted. Ralph Waldo Emerson described weeds as “a plant whose virtues have not yet been ...

Tillage is often seen as the organic alternative to chemical weed control. Tillage can be very effective at reducing weed populations, but can it be embraced as the solution to the weed problem? What ...

As University of California professor and agricultural economist Doug Larson says, “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except learning how to grow in rows.” To gardeners, a weed ...

Weeds enter farms and fields in various ways. Historically, most of our weeds were introduced from Europe and other areas as a result of human immigration to the prairies. On individual farms, weeds ...

There are right ways and wrong ways and right times and wrong times to wage war against weeds. Knowing a weed’s strengths and weaknesses and its correct identity helps you become the victor, not the ...