JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — State forestry officials are warning of an invasive weed that chokes out native plants.

Cogongrass is among the world’s most invasive weed species, The Sun Herald...

LEXINGTON, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State University researchers and administrators joined elected officials in praising what they say is an environmentally friendly and financially beneficial...

Champaign, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced that soybean farmers in 25 states are now able to spray a pesticide that the agency has determined is likely to...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — An invasive weed that’s toxic to livestock and resistant to herbicides has been found in Connecticut.

The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station announced...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The presence of a weed that researchers say can drastically reduce crop yields has been confirmed in a seventh North Dakota county, according to a state agency.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — For the third straight year, a volatile pesticide is damaging crops across the Midwest and South, despite federal and state efforts to lessen the drift.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Agriculture officials say an invasive weed has been confirmed in Grant County in western North Dakota.

The North Dakota Department of Agriculture said Thursday that a...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Plans to treat Eurasian milfoil at Vancouver Lake have been delayed because the invasive weed has stopped growing and would no longer effectively absorb an...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York officials say statewide efforts to control a giant invasive plant with toxic sap are making headway.

The Department of Environmental Conservation's Giant Hogweed...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is projecting a 1,200% increase in hemp farming acreage, as the state looks to join in on the booming market with others in the region.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont's capital city is going to be using goats again as a way to control poison ivy and other unwanted plants without herbicides.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana State University is working with a private citizen and a university in Puerto Rico to control an invasive South American weed that can quickly form dense mats...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — It won't take effect in time for this summer's boating season, but a bill aimed at preventing the spread of invasive aquatic weeds in New Hampshire lakes is headed to the...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A volatile weed killer linked to cancer and endocrine issues will likely be sprayed on millions more acres of soybeans and cotton across the Midwest and South starting this...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Officials at one Mississippi lake are trying to burn out an invader.

WAPT-TV reports workers at the Ross Barnett Reservoir near Jackson are using flamethrowers to...

PELAHATCHIE, Miss. (AP) — An invasive weed clogging a Mississippi waterway has almost been eradicated.

The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District said it eliminated 90 percent of Giant...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Transportation Cabinet crews are getting a jump on nuisance weeds that grow along the state's highways.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota has added two weeds to the state's list of noxious weeds.

The North Dakota Department of Agriculture announced the addition of Palmer amaranth and houndstongue on Tuesday.

Palmer amaranth is similar in appearance to waterhemp and was first found in North Dakota last year. The aggressive pigweed species has now been found in five counties .

SYRACUSE, Utah (AP) — Authorities say three stranded duck hunters stuck were rescued by a heavy-duty all-terrain vehicle plowing through invasive reeds on Christmas Eve.

The Davis County Sheriff's Office tells KSL-TV they used the vehicle donated by the locally filmed Discovery Channel show "Diesel Brothers" to plow through 13-foot-high weeds so they could reach the hunters stuck in the mud.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota is maintaining its June 20 cutoff date for farmers to use the herbicide dicamba, which has been blamed for drifting and damaging neighboring soybean fields.

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture imposed the cutoff for 2018 after getting 253 reports of alleged dicamba drift in 2017, including 55 formal complaints requesting investigations. Some 265,000 acres were affected.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Workers in Knoxville have removed three truckloads of invasive weeds from a local lake, including aquarium grasses that officials believe were dumped there by residents.

The Knoxville News Sentinel reports the city has spent nearly $760,000 cleaning up the one-acre lake in Fountain City Park.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas Plant Board committee recommended that the state allow farmers to use the herbicide dicamba next year, but extend protections to prevent the weed killer from drifting and damaging crops.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A southeast Missouri farmer has been indicted on federal charges of illegally applying a weed killer blamed for drifting and damaging crops in neighboring fields.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A super weed that can devastate corn and soybean crops has now been found in five North Dakota counties, but a university expert says there is still hope for preventing a widespread infestation of Palmer amaranth in the state.

The aggressive pigweed species can grow as tall as 7 feet and produce hundreds of thousands of seeds. It's strong enough to stop combines and resist many herbicides.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lancaster County weed control officials are ramping up efforts to fight Nebraska's most noxious weed.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's Game and Fish Department is asking pheasant hunters to keep an eye out for an aggressive pigweed species that has made its way into the state.

Palmer amaranth was positively identified in the state for the first time earlier this summer, in McIntosh County. Suspected plants in other eastern North Dakota counties are going through DNA analysis.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota rancher won a battle with a local weed and pest board that wanted to use poison gas to reduce the prairie dog population on her property.

The Fall River County Weed and Pest Board told Susan Henderson in a letter last month that it would cease remedial efforts, The Rapid City Journal reported .

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More plants that are suspected to be the aggressive pigweed species Palmer amaranth have been found in McIntosh County.

THURMOND, W.Va. (AP) — After unsuccessful attempts with chemical and mechanical weed treatments at New River Gorge, the National Park Service has decided to try its luck with an all-natural solution: goats.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — It is easy to see that the state Department of Transportation has finished up its annual half-million-dollar weed-spraying program for the summer.

You can tell by 3-foot-wide swaths of dried, brown vegetation along 5,000 miles of guardrails, sound barriers and center medians on Connecticut highways and secondary roads.

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago official says hundreds of fish died in the community's lake when oxygen levels plummeted after an herbicide was applied to combat aquatic plants.

About 400 fish, including largemouth bass, died last week in Libertyville's Butler Lake soon after a company applied a chemical that's designed to control invasive weeds, including the lake's excessive growth of water lilies.

STEPHENSVILLE, La. (AP) — A researcher says the hard winter apparently killed much of an invasive weed that clogs waterways around Louisiana — but it also killed many of the weevils raised to fight it.

KNOXVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Officials have confirmed that an invasive Asian weed has reached south-central Iowa.

Persicaria perfoliata, or mile-a-minute weed, was known to be in the mid-Atlantic states, Indiana and in Oregon. Experts say the plant can grow 6 inches (15 centimeters) a day and quickly smother native vegetation.

Iowa State Extension says the weed is suspected to have become permanently established following introduction to a Pennsylvania plant nursery in the 1930s or 1940s.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A recent inspection of a small stream and stretch of river in Twin Falls found several noxious weeds and invasive species.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — State officials say they've found an invasive, noxious weed in Lake Coeur d'Alene in northern Idaho.

The Coeur d'Alene Press reports that the Idaho State Department of Agriculture confirmed through testing that fragments of the curly leaf pondweed have been found at the Third Street Boat Launch and also suspected near Independence Point and Sanders Beach.

MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Divers will be removing an invasive weed from Lake Winnisquam by hand this summer in the first comprehensive attempt to manage the milfoil in the central New Hampshire lake.

New Hampshire Public Radio reports that the newly created Winnisquam Watershed Network received $46,000 in state and local funding for the project in the state's fourth largest lake.