PUKALANI – The state Department of Agriculture plans to release hundreds of “eating machines” next week to combat the thousands of acres infested with invasive Madagascar fireweed that is harmful to ...

COURTESY HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Hawaii scientists will be the first to test out the Madagascan fireweed moth (Secusio extensa) as a biological population control method against fireweed, or ...

Noel Watson is a happy farmer. He proves that community lobbying works when it comes to securing federal government assistance for weed control. The beef producer from the Bega valley of the NSW south ...

The potential of Colletotrichum dematium f.sp. epilobii (ATCC 20981) to control fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) was investigated. Under controlled environment conditions, plant age, inoculum ...

A discovery challenging the global use of sheep to control the spread of fireweed has led to a 16-year-old New South Wales student winning a prestigious science award. Jade Moxey, a student at the ...

Hawaii ranchers are getting buggy, and farming miniature “livestock” is generating a great deal of hope. Hawaii ranchers are getting buggy, and farming miniature “livestock” is generating a great deal ...

That is the gist of Cr David Pahlke's submission to a Parliamentary weeds inquiry that is being held in Gatton today. Cr Pahlke wrote to Rob Hansen, the secretary of the Queensland Parliament's ...

U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a biocontrol project aimed at slowing the spread of fireweed, or Madagascar ragwort, on the islands of ...