Herbicide-resistant weeds are a growing problem for farmers across the country. Luckily some new technologies are on the horizon to help battle the bullies of the plant world. The Weed Zapper is ...

Chemical weed control is increasingly under pressure. Since last year, the LaserWeeder has entered the market as an ...

Standard weed control methods, such as herbicides and the use of machines, can damage the environment, but Cambridge University researchers have found "weed-zapping technologies" that use electricity ...

A new Weed Science Society of America research article shows weed-zapping technologies to be equally effective as herbicides and mechanical control methods Miranda Slaven (left) and Catherine Borger ...

From drones that monitor and spray the crops to state-of-the-art harvesting robots and laser machines that can destroy harmful weeds, agriculture is constantly evolving and switching to more ...

Agrodrone, a Bay of Plenty-based agricultural service provider, is utilising drone technology to deliver targeted weed control and crop spraying across the region. The company’s approach is designed ...

New AI-powered farming machines trained on the PyTorch framework are being developed to help farmers produce more food with fewer resources. Blue River Technology is using the PyTorch machine-learning ...

Odontotermes obesus is one of the termite species that grows fungi, called Termitomyces, in their mounds. Workers collect ...

WESTMINSTER, Colorado – 17 July 2025 – A recently published article in the journal Weed Science shows electric control technologies can eradicate weeds just as effectively as herbicides or mechanical ...

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) "Here, we show for the first time that electric weed control in viticulture has comparable efficiency to that achieved by herbicides," says Catherine Borger, Ph.D., Principal ...