Electric weeder returns as resistant weeds challenge sugarbeet growers

Some sugarbeet growers are returning to a decade’s old weed control approach because of herbicide resistance. Kevin Olson is the president of LASCO Manufacturing, which uses a patented electric discharge system on its Lightning Weeder tool to kill weeds. He tells Brownfield the weeder was developed by Allis Chalmers in the early 1980’s in response […]

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