One of the most persistent weeds for Midwest farmers is Bassia scoparia, more commonly known as kochia. This aggressive summer annual is highly competitive, herbicide-resistant, and alarmingly ...

Strategy: This is a fast-growing annual plant that can be any size from ground level to 6 feet tall. It has soft, hairy leaves that have more hair on the lighter-colored underside than on top. Flowers ...

Ryan Miller, crops educator with University of Minnesota Extension, recently found kochia in Freeborn County, where it had "infested" a field of soybeans. Kochia is a weed problem for crops mostly in ...

Tom Peters, sugarbeet agronomist and weed control specialist for North Dakota State University and University of Minnesota, talked about using Spin-Aid to control kochia, at the Northwest Regional ...

Invasive kochia has become a common enemy on farms in the western half of the United States. Its herbicide resistance, coupled with its ability to germinate in early spring, survive extreme ...

The first step to controlling either of these plants is to keep current plants from producing seed that is added to the seed repository in soils. Limit disturbances such as tractor, animal and people ...

A large flower garden managed by Mie Prefecture's Shima City features 200,000 cosmos plants and, for the first time, 5,200 kochia shrubs as well. Visitors can enjoy strolling past the fields of ...

Visitors walk through summer cypress, or kochia, at Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, in this recent photo. The "fluffy" kochia, which has grown into a lovely round shape, is ...

The movement of sulfonylurea herbicide-resistant (R) kochia pollen was investigated in a spring barley field near Moscow, ID, using a Nelder plot design in 1991 and 1992. Each 61 m diameter plot had ...

Kochia (Kochia scoparia L.) or (Bassia Scoparia) aslo known as Mexican burning bush, is a summer annual native to Eurasia. It was originally introduced into the U.S. in the 1900’s as an ornamental and ...