The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently approved and issued an exemption to the N e braska Department of Agriculture to allow farmers to use metamitron herbicide for weed control in sugar ...

WILLMAR -- Sugar beet growers are invited to a weed control update meeting from 9 to 11 a.m. Nov. 18 at the Kandi Entertainment Center in Willmar. North Dakota State University Extension sugar beet ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. - Tom Peters is often asked if he “works with weed resistance.” “I say, no I do not: I work with weeds management,” says Peters, a sugar beet agronomist with University of Minnesota ...

In a sugar beet field a few miles east of Moorhead, small four-wheeled robots are rolling up and down the rows of beets. Powered by a solar panel, the robots use cameras to spot weeds and then guide ...

A University of Idaho Extension weed specialist is investigating the recent discovery in an Elmore County sugar beet field of a weed that had never previously been detected in Idaho and appears to be ...

CASSELTON, N.D. — There were sugarbeets planted near Casselton, North Dakota, in July, weeks after normal planting would be complete. The reason? The developers of an autonomous weeding robot need to ...