Getting Rid Of Weeds
Through Integrated Weed Management
We are a scientist-led network coordinating research to help farmers across the U.S. fight herbicide-resistance with a greater diversity of weed control strategies to complement chemical use.
GROW aims to provide information on tools such as cover crops, increased crop competition, harvest weed seed control, and more.
No Seeds. No Weeds.
For over 50 years, herbicides have been a highly effective method to control weeds and protect crop yields. Herbicides have supported the wide-spread use of no-till and limited cultivation for weed control, improving soil health. However, over reliance on a few key herbicides has caused the development of particularly problematic herbicide-resistant weeds.
For some farmers, herbicides alone just aren’t getting the job done anymore.
Integrated Weed Management (IWM) is the answer.
What is Integrated Weed Management?
Integrated weed management (IWM) combines various methods to reduce or eliminate the effect of weeds on crop production over time, using a combination of practices that are most effective for solving specific weed issues. Techniques include:
Recent IWM News
Farmer Forum Recap: Combine Set-Up for Threshing Green Material
In the final Farmer Forum of the 2022 season on November 29, Australian presenters shared their combine threshing secrets for...
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Mechanical Weed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
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Texas Scientists Use Drone Spot Sprayers to Fight Weeds
If you’re looking for the future of precision herbicide use, check out the cotton fields of southeastern Texas, near College...
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Herbicide Resistance
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Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Last Call for Weed Seed Prevention: Equipment Cleanout
The 2022 harvest season is winding down, but your farm equipment might be holding onto something you’d rather leave behind:...
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Prevention
featured
Grow News
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Mechanical Weed Control
A Better View of Cover Crops Could Help Weed Control
Imagine a farmer flying a drone over a rye cover crop field. An app on his smartphone quickly generates a map of the field...
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Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Cover Crops
Prevention
The Fate of Weed Seeds: Where Do They Go in a Combine?
Weed seeds vanish from our view when they enter a combine at harvest, but Virginia Tech researchers want to unmask the mystery of...
Harvest Weed Seed Management
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Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Farmer Forum Recap: How to Optimize Threshing Settings for Harvest Weed Seed Control
In GROW’s fourth Farmer Forum of the season, Australian combine experts took a deep dive into combine settings for threshing...
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Harvest Weed Seed Management
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Does Harvest Weed Seed Control Work in Rice Fields?
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Harvest Weed Seed Management
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Missouri Scientists Explore Weed Electrocution in Soybeans
Imagine taking a direct hit of 15,000 volts of electricity, as you stood in a wide open field, feet planted in the soil. ...
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Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Weed Electrocution
Texas Rice Farmer Tries Out iHSD to Halt Weed Seedbank
GROW headed to Texas recently to interview Bryan Wiese, owner of Wiese Brothers Farm in Wharton, about his unique decision to try...
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Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Farmer Forum Recap: How to Set Up Combine Headers for Weed Seed Capture
In GROW’s third Farmer Forum of the season, Australian combine experts presented on how to set up a combine header to capture...
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Meet Ray Harrington, Founder of the Harrington Seed Destructor
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Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Mechanical Weed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
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EPA Visits MD Farms to Talk Weeds & Pesticide Labels
ROCKVILLE, Md. — A group of more than 40 EPA scientists hit the road on September 13, 2022, for a farm tour of southern...
Herbicide Resistance
Grow News
Industry News
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Cover Crops
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A Better View of Cover Crops Could Help Weed Control
Imagine a farmer flying a drone over a rye cover crop field. An app on his smartphone quickly generates a map of the field...
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Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Cover Crops
Prevention
EPA Visits MD Farms to Talk Weeds & Pesticide Labels
ROCKVILLE, Md. — A group of more than 40 EPA scientists hit the road on September 13, 2022, for a farm tour of southern...
Herbicide Resistance
Grow News
Industry News
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Cover Crops
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Bayer CropScience and USDA Collaborate To Promote On-The-Farm Integrated Weed Management
USDA’s Agricultural Research Service-sponsored GROW network (www.growiwm.org) is pleased to collaborate with Bayer CropScience...
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Harvest Weed Seed Management
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A Practical Guide for Integrated Weed Management In Mid-Atlantic Grain Crops
Integrated Weed Management (IWM) means integrating multiple weed control tactics to optimize weed control. The past several...
Harvest Weed Seed Management
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Tillage, weed control, and the weed seedbank.
Tillage is used primarily to prepare the soil for planting. But tillage can have other impacts including destroying...
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Prevention
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
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Mechanical Weed Control
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NCSU researchers use drones to identify Italian ryegrass seedlings in wheat
Italian ryegrass is an herbicide-resistant weed infesting many winter wheat fields in the eastern US, including North Carolina. ...
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
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Mechanical Weed Control
News From Other Sources
Cover Crops
Harvest Weed Seed Management
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
How to Get Rid Of Weeds with multiple tactic layers
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
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Mid-Atlantic Workshop on Herbicide-Resistance Went Virtual This Year
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Mechanical Weed Control
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Prevention
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Turning the combine from a weed spreader into a weed predator
Dr. Michael Flessner, Extension Weed Specialist at Virginia Tech, discusses his work with Shockley Farms in Northampton Co....
Mechanical Weed Control
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Harvest Weed Seed Management
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Prevention
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
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Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Killing weed seeds at harvest: a seed impact mill is now a reality in Virginia
A Redekop Seed Control Unit was installed on a John Deere S680 combine at Shockley Farms, near Cape Charles, VA. Bill Shockley is...
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Mechanical Weed Control
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Harvest Weed Seed Management
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Guidance for Building and Installing a Chaff Lining Prototype to a Combine
Based on a JD9500 combine, researchers from the University of Delaware developed a chaff lining prototype. Building and...
Mechanical Weed Control
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Cover Crops
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Prevention
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
On-farm Chaff Lining Field Results
At harvest, you may discover that weeds have escaped your control efforts and are setting seeds. These escaped weeds can create...
Prevention
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Mechanical Weed Control
News From Other Sources
Cover Crops
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Farmer Forum Recap: Combine Set-Up for Threshing Green Material
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Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Mechanical Weed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
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featured
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Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Last Call for Weed Seed Prevention: Equipment Cleanout
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Harvest Weed Seed Management
Prevention
featured
Grow News
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Mechanical Weed Control
A Better View of Cover Crops Could Help Weed Control
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featured
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Cover Crops
Prevention
The Fate of Weed Seeds: Where Do They Go in a Combine?
Weed seeds vanish from our view when they enter a combine at harvest, but Virginia Tech researchers want to unmask the mystery of...
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Farmer Forum Recap: How to Optimize Threshing Settings for Harvest Weed Seed Control
In GROW’s fourth Farmer Forum of the season, Australian combine experts took a deep dive into combine settings for threshing...
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
Does Harvest Weed Seed Control Work in Rice Fields?
Texas researchers want to know how harvest weed seed control tactics such as the integrated Harrington Seed Destructor (iHSD)...
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
Grow News
Texas Rice Farmer Tries Out iHSD to Halt Weed Seedbank
GROW headed to Texas recently to interview Bryan Wiese, owner of Wiese Brothers Farm in Wharton, about his unique decision to try...
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Farmer Forum Recap: How to Set Up Combine Headers for Weed Seed Capture
In GROW’s third Farmer Forum of the season, Australian combine experts presented on how to set up a combine header to capture...
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Meet Ray Harrington, Founder of the Harrington Seed Destructor
The Harrington Seed Destructor (HSD) is now an internationally known tool, but it all started more than two decades ago, as the...
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Mechanical Weed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
featured
EPA Visits MD Farms to Talk Weeds & Pesticide Labels
ROCKVILLE, Md. — A group of more than 40 EPA scientists hit the road on September 13, 2022, for a farm tour of southern...
Herbicide Resistance
Grow News
Industry News
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Cover Crops
featured
Can A Corn Header Capture Weed Seeds?
Capturing as many weed seeds as possible during the harvest operation is key to optimizing any harvest weed seed control option,...
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
featured
Texas Scientists Use Drone Spot Sprayers to Fight Weeds
If you’re looking for the future of precision herbicide use, check out the cotton fields of southeastern Texas, near College...
featured
Herbicide Resistance
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Last Call for Weed Seed Prevention: Equipment Cleanout
The 2022 harvest season is winding down, but your farm equipment might be holding onto something you’d rather leave behind:...
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Prevention
featured
Grow News
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Mechanical Weed Control
The Fate of Weed Seeds: Where Do They Go in a Combine?
Weed seeds vanish from our view when they enter a combine at harvest, but Virginia Tech researchers want to unmask the mystery of...
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Missouri Scientists Explore Weed Electrocution in Soybeans
Imagine taking a direct hit of 15,000 volts of electricity, as you stood in a wide open field, feet planted in the soil. ...
News From Other Sources
featured
Industry News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Weed Electrocution
Farmer Forum Recap: How to Set Up Combine Headers for Weed Seed Capture
In GROW’s third Farmer Forum of the season, Australian combine experts presented on how to set up a combine header to capture...
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Meet Ray Harrington, Founder of the Harrington Seed Destructor
The Harrington Seed Destructor (HSD) is now an internationally known tool, but it all started more than two decades ago, as the...
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Mechanical Weed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
featured
EPA Visits MD Farms to Talk Weeds & Pesticide Labels
ROCKVILLE, Md. — A group of more than 40 EPA scientists hit the road on September 13, 2022, for a farm tour of southern...
Herbicide Resistance
Grow News
Industry News
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Cover Crops
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How to Identify Summer Grass Weeds by Their Seedhead
Video by Claudio Rubione Grasses are tough to tell apart, but they often require different weed management strategies, so...
Grow News
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
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Identifying summer annual grasses in grain crops
Name that grassy weed: GROW team member Dr. Mark VanGessel provides an overview of summer annual grass weed identification....
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Why care about metabolic herbicide resistance?
Target site resistance has been the more common form of resistance, while metabolic resistance has been “flying under the...
Grow News
featured
Herbicide Resistance
How to Get Rid Of Weeds with multiple tactic layers
Dr. Ramon Leon, North Carolina State University Extension and Research Weed Scientist, discusses how to manage winter and summer...
Uncategorized
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Industry News
Prevention
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
featured
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Mechanical Weed Control
News From Other Sources
Cover Crops
Mid-Atlantic Workshop on Herbicide-Resistance Went Virtual This Year
A two-part workshop on herbicide-resistant weeds was held jointly with University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, and University of...
Mechanical Weed Control
Uncategorized
News From Other Sources
Grow News
Industry News
Cover Crops
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Prevention
featured
Farmer Forum Recap: Combine Set-Up for Threshing Green Material
In the final Farmer Forum of the 2022 season on November 29, Australian presenters shared their combine threshing secrets for...
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Mechanical Weed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
The Fate of Weed Seeds: Where Do They Go in a Combine?
Weed seeds vanish from our view when they enter a combine at harvest, but Virginia Tech researchers want to unmask the mystery of...
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Farmer Forum Recap: How to Optimize Threshing Settings for Harvest Weed Seed Control
In GROW’s fourth Farmer Forum of the season, Australian combine experts took a deep dive into combine settings for threshing...
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
Does Harvest Weed Seed Control Work in Rice Fields?
Texas researchers want to know how harvest weed seed control tactics such as the integrated Harrington Seed Destructor (iHSD)...
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
Grow News
Texas Rice Farmer Tries Out iHSD to Halt Weed Seedbank
GROW headed to Texas recently to interview Bryan Wiese, owner of Wiese Brothers Farm in Wharton, about his unique decision to try...
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Farmer Forum Recap: How to Set Up Combine Headers for Weed Seed Capture
In GROW’s third Farmer Forum of the season, Australian combine experts presented on how to set up a combine header to capture...
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Meet Ray Harrington, Founder of the Harrington Seed Destructor
The Harrington Seed Destructor (HSD) is now an internationally known tool, but it all started more than two decades ago, as the...
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Mechanical Weed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
featured
Can A Corn Header Capture Weed Seeds?
Capturing as many weed seeds as possible during the harvest operation is key to optimizing any harvest weed seed control option,...
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
featured
Farmer Forum Recap: Americans talk Harvest Weed Seed Control with international experts
Video and article by Claudio Rubione, GROW One advantage of meeting virtually is that people in different countries can gather...
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
A Q&A on chaff lining with Michael Flessner
What is chaff lining? Chaff lining is one of the easiest entry points to harvest weed seed control. A combine set up for...
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Harrington Seed Destructor managing director visited US farmers to help adapt harvest weed seed control technology.
Judson Wheatley, managing director for de Bruin Engineering, made the long trip from Australia to the US in mid-May to visit...
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
featured
Bayer CropScience and USDA Collaborate To Promote On-The-Farm Integrated Weed Management
USDA’s Agricultural Research Service-sponsored GROW network (www.growiwm.org) is pleased to collaborate with Bayer CropScience...
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Mechanical Weed Control
News From Other Sources
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Harvest Weed Seed Management
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Harvest Weed Seed Control
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In the Fields
What Are Your Problem Weeds?
Cheatgrass
Mustard Species in Wheat
Rush Skeletonweed
Russian Thistle
Prickly Lettuce
Mayweed Chamomile
Field Bindweed
Common Barberry
Buckwheat
Jointed Goatgrass
Rattail Fescue
Feral Rye
