Invader Batters Rural America, Shrugging Off Herbicides

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 00:00 in Earth & Climate

A herbicide-resistant weed known as palmer amaranth or carelessweed has devastated Southern cotton fields and is poised to wreak havoc in the Midwest, partly because of farming practices.

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