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 ...

iTerra is developing a non-chemical alternative to herbicides I-Pulse Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO Robert Friedland, I-Pulse ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blue River Technology, a subsidiary of farming equipment maker John Deere, has started putting deep machine learning and to use for farmers to help make their lives easier with smart machines. Farmers ...

YVERDON-LES-BAINS, Switzerland • In a field of sugar beets in Switzerland, a solar-powered robot that looks like a table on wheels scans the rows of crops with its camera, identifies weeds and zaps ...

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 ...

Miranda Slaven (left) and Catherine Borger (right) investigated electric weed control with a Zasso TM XPower machine. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

In the 70s’, there were fears that milfoil, a green and slimy water weed that thrives in shallow waters near the shore, would destroy tourism in the Valley. For decades, the OBWB has run programs to ...