URBANA, Ill. - In the battle against herbicide-resistant weeds, farmers are increasingly eager to add non-chemical control methods to their management toolbox. Impact mills, which destroy weed seeds ...

NEWPORT – For decades, the fight against weeds in Arkansas agriculture — barnyardgrass and Palmer amaranth, in particular — has been an ongoing war of attrition, as weed populations gradually acquire ...

Redekop manufactures a harvest seed control unit that crushes weed seeds before they exit the combine. Sales are picking up in North America, but many growers want more data on the economic and ...

The Harrington Seed Des­tructor, which pulverises seeds as they leave the header, had previously only been available as a towable unit behind the header. But at the Henty Machinery Field Days last ...

Manufacturers of an Australian weed culling machine are expecting sales to surge after the green design received an international gong for "smart agriculture". Loading... Invented by Western ...

A FULL hydraulic drive and new Cummins 149kW engine will feature in the new Harrington Seed Destructor. De Bruin Engineering is the sole licensee for the HSD, a Western Australian-designed chaff and ...

Combines are a modern farming miracle, separating grain from chaff in a matter of seconds. But that chaff—often full of seeds from herbicide-resistant weeds—gets blown right back onto the field. Enter ...

Australia’s troubles with resistant weeds — mainly annual ryegrass — started around 1990, says Stephen Powles, a plant scientist at the University of Western Australia who is known by some as the ...

Grass and broadleaved weeds can claim to have caused more symptoms of stress among arable growers than the most nagging mother-in-law. Harvest is the most important period for weed control. Modern ...

Weed seed destructors can potentially crush 90 to 95 percent of the weed seeds that go through the combine, thus reducing the number of viable seeds that could become weeds in future years. “ (They) ...

For decades, the fight against weeds in Arkansas agriculture—barnyardgrass and Palmer amaranth, in particular—has been an ongoing war of attrition, as weed populations gradually acquire resistance to ...