PUKALANI – The state Department of Agriculture plans to release hundreds of “eating machines” next week to combat the thousands of acres infested with invasive Madagascar fireweed that is harmful to ...

Noel Watson is a happy farmer. He proves that community lobbying works when it comes to securing federal government assistance for weed control. The beef producer from the Bega valley of the NSW south ...

Weeds are one of the biggest land management issues for rural people, and nothing raises the ire of Bega region farmers more than fireweed. It can kill cattle and horses, so it is is enemy number one ...

COURTESY HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Hawaii scientists will be the first to test out the Madagascan fireweed moth (Secusio extensa) as a biological population control method against fireweed, or ...

Hawaii ranchers are getting buggy, and farming miniature “livestock” is generating a great deal of hope. Hawaii ranchers are getting buggy, and farming miniature “livestock” is generating a great deal ...

U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a biocontrol project aimed at slowing the spread of fireweed, or Madagascar ragwort, on the islands of ...

That is the gist of Cr David Pahlke's submission to a Parliamentary weeds inquiry that is being held in Gatton today. Cr Pahlke wrote to Rob Hansen, the secretary of the Queensland Parliament's ...