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
Updates on Harvest Weed Seed Control from WSSA Members Across the Country
Harvest weed seed control research is growing across the U.S., with farmers and researchers trying out chaff lining and seed...
Mechanical Weed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Join a GROW Farmer Forum on Cover Crop Termination
GROW will be hosting its its first Farmer Forum of the 2023 season on Wednesday, March 29, at 2 p.m. EDT. Listen in —...
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Cover Crops
How Does Cover Crop Residue Interact with Soil Residual Herbicides?
We know cover crops can provide a physical barrier on top of the soil to smother and suppress emerging weeds. But many...
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
News From Other Sources
Cover Crops
Prevention
featured
GROW is Hiring a Post-Doctoral Researcher
A unique opportunity is now open for a post-doctoral researcher to join GROW (www.growiwm.org), a dynamic research and extension...
Grow News
featured
How a National Image Repository Can Transform Agriculture
The National Agricultural Image Repository (NAIR) is a large-scale, multi-state effort to build and share weed and crop images,...
DIGITAL AGRICULTURE
Grow News
featured
The Ag Image Repository: A First Step in Accessible Precision Ag
So much of precision agriculture – such as precision spraying technology or weed-identifying apps – relies on images. ...
DIGITAL AGRICULTURE
Grow News
featured
Three Weird Ways Weed Seeds Can Travel
Weeds have plenty of biological tricks to spread seeds on their own, but they also get an assist from a few surprising sources,...
Grow News
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Prevention
featured
Four Takeaways on Cover Crops and Weed Control from WSSA
Using cover crops for weed suppression can be complicated, so it’s little surprise that the past decade’s worth of research...
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
News From Other Sources
Cover Crops
Grow News
featured
Industry News
A Deep Dive Into Mapping Fields with High Speed Cameras
Have a field brimming with thousands of weeds or cover crops and no idea what all is out there? Søren Skovsen is working...
Cover Crops
featured
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
How to Manage Weeds in the Face of Regulation and Resistance
There’s a double threat looming for farmers using herbicides alone to manage weeds: regulation and resistance. Both are...
Weed Electrocution
Grow News
Cover Crops
Industry News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Prevention
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Herbicide Resistance
Mechanical Weed Control
News From Other Sources
Mapping Tools Offer Farmers a Big Picture View of Crop Management
When moving through a field row by row, weed by weed, it can be hard for farmers to see the big picture. Researchers from GROW...
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Cover Crops
featured
Grow News
Explore How Planting Green Affects Crop Insects and Disease
Planting green can be a risky business. The practice of planting cash crops into green, living cover crops is gaining popularity,...
Cover Crops
featured
Industry News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
News From Other Sources
Join a GROW Farmer Forum on Cover Crop Termination
GROW will be hosting its its first Farmer Forum of the 2023 season on Wednesday, March 29, at 2 p.m. EDT. Listen in —...
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Cover Crops
How Does Cover Crop Residue Interact with Soil Residual Herbicides?
We know cover crops can provide a physical barrier on top of the soil to smother and suppress emerging weeds. But many...
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
News From Other Sources
Cover Crops
Prevention
featured
Four Takeaways on Cover Crops and Weed Control from WSSA
Using cover crops for weed suppression can be complicated, so it’s little surprise that the past decade’s worth of research...
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
News From Other Sources
Cover Crops
Grow News
featured
Industry News
A Deep Dive Into Mapping Fields with High Speed Cameras
Have a field brimming with thousands of weeds or cover crops and no idea what all is out there? Søren Skovsen is working...
Cover Crops
featured
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
How to Manage Weeds in the Face of Regulation and Resistance
There’s a double threat looming for farmers using herbicides alone to manage weeds: regulation and resistance. Both are...
Weed Electrocution
Grow News
Cover Crops
Industry News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Prevention
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Herbicide Resistance
Mechanical Weed Control
News From Other Sources
Mapping Tools Offer Farmers a Big Picture View of Crop Management
When moving through a field row by row, weed by weed, it can be hard for farmers to see the big picture. Researchers from GROW...
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Cover Crops
featured
Grow News
Explore How Planting Green Affects Crop Insects and Disease
Planting green can be a risky business. The practice of planting cash crops into green, living cover crops is gaining popularity,...
Cover Crops
featured
Industry News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
News From Other Sources
GROW Resources on Cover Crops and Weed Suppression
Cover crops can be an important part of a farmer’s weed control strategy. But successfully using cover crops for weed...
Cover Crops
Prevention
featured
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
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...
Prevention
featured
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Cover Crops
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...
Cover Crops
featured
Herbicide Resistance
Grow News
Industry News
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
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...
featured
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Mechanical Weed Control
News From Other Sources
Cover Crops
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Uncategorized
Grow News
Prevention
Industry News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
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
Uncategorized
Prevention
Grow News
featured
Industry News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Mechanical Weed Control
News From Other Sources
Cover Crops
Updates on Harvest Weed Seed Control from WSSA Members Across the Country
Harvest weed seed control research is growing across the U.S., with farmers and researchers trying out chaff lining and seed...
Mechanical Weed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Join a GROW Farmer Forum on Cover Crop Termination
GROW will be hosting its its first Farmer Forum of the 2023 season on Wednesday, March 29, at 2 p.m. EDT. Listen in —...
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Cover Crops
GROW is Hiring a Post-Doctoral Researcher
A unique opportunity is now open for a post-doctoral researcher to join GROW (www.growiwm.org), a dynamic research and extension...
Grow News
featured
How a National Image Repository Can Transform Agriculture
The National Agricultural Image Repository (NAIR) is a large-scale, multi-state effort to build and share weed and crop images,...
DIGITAL AGRICULTURE
Grow News
featured
The Ag Image Repository: A First Step in Accessible Precision Ag
So much of precision agriculture – such as precision spraying technology or weed-identifying apps – relies on images. ...
DIGITAL AGRICULTURE
Grow News
featured
Three Weird Ways Weed Seeds Can Travel
Weeds have plenty of biological tricks to spread seeds on their own, but they also get an assist from a few surprising sources,...
Grow News
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Prevention
featured
Four Takeaways on Cover Crops and Weed Control from WSSA
Using cover crops for weed suppression can be complicated, so it’s little surprise that the past decade’s worth of research...
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
News From Other Sources
Cover Crops
Grow News
featured
Industry News
A Deep Dive Into Mapping Fields with High Speed Cameras
Have a field brimming with thousands of weeds or cover crops and no idea what all is out there? Søren Skovsen is working...
Cover Crops
featured
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
How to Manage Weeds in the Face of Regulation and Resistance
There’s a double threat looming for farmers using herbicides alone to manage weeds: regulation and resistance. Both are...
Weed Electrocution
Grow News
Cover Crops
Industry News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Prevention
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Herbicide Resistance
Mechanical Weed Control
News From Other Sources
Mapping Tools Offer Farmers a Big Picture View of Crop Management
When moving through a field row by row, weed by weed, it can be hard for farmers to see the big picture. Researchers from GROW...
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Cover Crops
featured
Grow News
Are You a Fan of DIY Weed Control? Try Chaff Lining.
Harvest weed seed control doesn’t have to be fancy or expensive. Just ask Michael Flessner, Extension Weed Specialist at...
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Prevention
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
GROW Resources on Cover Crops and Weed Suppression
Cover crops can be an important part of a farmer’s weed control strategy. But successfully using cover crops for weed...
Cover Crops
Prevention
featured
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Join a GROW Farmer Forum on Cover Crop Termination
GROW will be hosting its its first Farmer Forum of the 2023 season on Wednesday, March 29, at 2 p.m. EDT. Listen in —...
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Cover Crops
How Does Cover Crop Residue Interact with Soil Residual Herbicides?
We know cover crops can provide a physical barrier on top of the soil to smother and suppress emerging weeds. But many...
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
News From Other Sources
Cover Crops
Prevention
featured
Three Weird Ways Weed Seeds Can Travel
Weeds have plenty of biological tricks to spread seeds on their own, but they also get an assist from a few surprising sources,...
Grow News
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Prevention
featured
Four Takeaways on Cover Crops and Weed Control from WSSA
Using cover crops for weed suppression can be complicated, so it’s little surprise that the past decade’s worth of research...
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
News From Other Sources
Cover Crops
Grow News
featured
Industry News
How to Manage Weeds in the Face of Regulation and Resistance
There’s a double threat looming for farmers using herbicides alone to manage weeds: regulation and resistance. Both are...
Weed Electrocution
Grow News
Cover Crops
Industry News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Prevention
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Herbicide Resistance
Mechanical Weed Control
News From Other Sources
Mapping Tools Offer Farmers a Big Picture View of Crop Management
When moving through a field row by row, weed by weed, it can be hard for farmers to see the big picture. Researchers from GROW...
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Cover Crops
featured
Grow News
Are You a Fan of DIY Weed Control? Try Chaff Lining.
Harvest weed seed control doesn’t have to be fancy or expensive. Just ask Michael Flessner, Extension Weed Specialist at...
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Prevention
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
GROW Resources on Cover Crops and Weed Suppression
Cover crops can be an important part of a farmer’s weed control strategy. But successfully using cover crops for weed...
Cover Crops
Prevention
featured
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
The Australian Weed Control Revolution
Harvest weed seed control is an Australian innovation born of necessity. Farmers have long relied heavily on herbicides in the...
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Prevention
Industry News
featured
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Herbicide Resistance
News From Other Sources
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...
Grow News
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
featured
Herbicide Resistance
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...
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Updates on Harvest Weed Seed Control from WSSA Members Across the Country
Harvest weed seed control research is growing across the U.S., with farmers and researchers trying out chaff lining and seed...
Mechanical Weed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
How to Manage Weeds in the Face of Regulation and Resistance
There’s a double threat looming for farmers using herbicides alone to manage weeds: regulation and resistance. Both are...
Weed Electrocution
Grow News
Cover Crops
Industry News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Prevention
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Herbicide Resistance
Mechanical Weed Control
News From Other Sources
Are You a Fan of DIY Weed Control? Try Chaff Lining.
Harvest weed seed control doesn’t have to be fancy or expensive. Just ask Michael Flessner, Extension Weed Specialist at...
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Prevention
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
The Australian Weed Control Revolution
Harvest weed seed control is an Australian innovation born of necessity. Farmers have long relied heavily on herbicides in the...
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Prevention
Industry News
featured
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Herbicide Resistance
News From Other Sources
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...
Mechanical Weed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
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...
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Harvest Weed Seed Management
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
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)...
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Harvest Weed Seed Management
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...
Harvest Weed Seed Control
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Grow News
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...
Mechanical Weed Control
Harvest Weed Seed Management
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
featured
Integrated Weed Management Innovations
Herbicide Resistant Weeds
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,...
featured
Grow News
Harvest Weed Seed Control
In the Fields
What Are Your Problem Weeds?
Texas Panicum
Canada Thistle
Common Pokeweed
Cheatgrass
Mustard Species in Wheat
Rush Skeletonweed
Russian Thistle
Prickly Lettuce
Mayweed Chamomile
Field Bindweed
Common Barberry
Buckwheat
