If you sit around agricultural chemical retail outlets during herbicide-buying season, you will hear a lot of griping about the prices. As with other input costs, herbicide prices continue to increase ...

As spring approaches, homeowners and landowners are beginning to see several types of winter weeds in their lawns and pastures. This sight makes many prepare to spray herbicides to control these ...

Not only are herbicides harmful to the environment, but they're also one more expense for the farmers who use them. That's where the Greeneye selective spraying system comes in, as it's claimed to ...

On a final note, a small amount of ethylene enhances germination of weed and crop seeds. Spraying with ethylene can get most weeds to germinate, and then they can be mostly terminated all at once.

Researchers hope an unmanned herbicide sprayer, demonstrated recently in Lake Wales, will help citrus growers cut wasteful spraying and squeeze more profits out of their groves. At Florida’s Natural ...

Necessity breeds invention. Pressed for time and labor, Dale Roberts built a mower-sprayer for his Pennsylvania orchards, and his innovation is a means to keep dollars in-pocket. One pass, two ...

John Draper and I are sitting in the cab of a tractor on the research farm he manages for the University of Maryland, alongside the Chesapeake Bay. Behind us, there's a sprayer. "So, away we go!" ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Every year, the technology being used in agriculture seems increasingly like something out of science fiction: Machines that ...