Farmers must incessantly weed rice paddies to maintain water flow through the terraces. Rice, an annual grass belonging to the same family as barley, oats, rye, and wheat, grows today in a range ...

A recently published article in the journal Weed Science demonstrates just how devastating Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) can be for furrow-irrigated rice production, even in small amounts.

If the weed reaches a rice field, it could twine around the rice plants, causing them to fall and resulting in a drop in the harvest. Alligatorweed was first confirmed in Japan in 1989 ...

A word of caution to rice growers: the herbicide fluridone has become a valuable tool in fighting Palmer pigweed, but it can ...