When Jason Smith was a boy in the 1980s, a farmer could drive into town, stop at a dealership and buy a seemingly endless variety of Bush Hog blades. Everyone he knew mowed field edges and had a ditch ...

The tools consist of open-source libraries Google is calling modules. These modules should help developers create and run their own software on embedded devices. Google designed each module to help ...

Have you ever heard of pigweed which is also known as amaranth? This plant has been gaining recognition as a superfood due to its exceptional nutritional profile and various health benefits. According ...

NORTH MANKATO - Tennessee farmers thought Roundup was a white knight riding in to save them from ALS weed resistance. Instead, Roundup was a loan that's coming due with interest. That's how University ...

There's a weed in Arkansas that can put a farmer out of business. It's called pigweed. You get one plant in your field, and that one plant can produce more than a million seeds. Many of the seeds ...

Pigweed patrols are a devil of a farming practice. In the form of chopping, pulling, or eyeballing and marking, hand weeding is a costly headache, but total reliance on a shrinking arsenal of ...

SIERRA VISTA - When local residents learned that nearly 40 head of cattle on a ranch in Chino Valley near Prescott may have died after eating pigweed, the news sparked concern among livestock owners.

Last month, Google was found to have filed a trademark for an “operating system” by the name of “Pigweed.” Today, Google is officially taking the wraps off of Pigweed, a collection of open source ...

The University of Idaho Sugar Beet Conference is slated from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. Dec. 4 at Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise. Amalgamated Sugar, a grower-owned cooperative that operates processing ...