Insights and Stories on Herbicides

Giorgos Zeikos, apple farmer and president of the Agia apple producers' cooperative checks the fruits at an apple orchard in the village of Agia, in Thessaly, Greece, June 12, 2025.

Europe’s illegal pesticide trade surges as farmers cut costs

Jul. 10, 2025 at 10:40 am CDT

As the cost of spraying crops with pesticides becomes increasingly expensive, farmers in Greece's agricultural heartland have turned to a cheaper alternative: liquids in unlabeled plastic bottles smuggled over land and sea.

Kochia’s expanding herbicide resistance puts pressure on no-till systems

Jul. 4, 2025 at 2:44 pm CDT

By Don Norman

Kim Brown at crop diagnostic school presenting on water quality and herbicides

Is dirty water sabotaging your herbicide efficacy?

Jun. 19, 2025 at 9:35 am CDT

By Miranda Leybourne

a sprayer unit spraying herbicide on a green crop

If glyphosate goes down, what’s next?

May. 30, 2025 at 9:47 am CDT

By Don Norman

Herbicide researchers pick new fights against weeds

Feb. 12, 2025 at 8:48 pm CST

By Don Norman

Cash-strapped US farmers switch to generic crop chemicals, in blow to big manufacturers

Nov. 14, 2024 at 10:19 am CST

U.S. farmers struggling with slumping incomes and depressed grain prices have been switching to cheaper generic pesticides and fungicides as they plan for spring planting next year, which market analysts said could hit the bottom lines of agrichemical companies like Bayer.

By Heather Schlitz P.J. Huffstutter Reuters

Your fall weed control checklist

Oct. 4, 2024 at 10:26 am CDT

Attention to fall weed control is needed as harvest nears its end. Speaking during a Manitoba Agriculture webinar Sept. 25, provincial weed specialist Kim Brown singled out weeds that thrive in salinity, which concerned many producers this spring. Kochia is perhaps the most infamous weed threat on that list. A […]

By Miranda Leybourne