IARN — If it isn’t one thing, it is another, right? It seems like the crop protection battle just never ends. Once we get a handle on one thing, two more issues pop up. In the world of weeds, we focus on a few major players: Lambsquarter, Pigweed, Waterhemp, and the list goes on. Some of these weeds are more stubborn than others and make it a challenge to get them out of our fields.
One such weed is not native to our side of the globe and hasn’t shown up often enough for us to get a handle on it; that’s Asian Copperleaf. Meghan Anderson of Iowa State University Extension says that for everything we do know, there’s more that we don’t.
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Asian Copperleaf (Photo courtesy of IDALS)
