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 ...

As the drought continues across much of the south-east, a new challenge looms threatening farmers' livelihoods. The noxious plant fireweed has already spread across large parts of the far south coast ...

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 ...

It’s taken longer than anticipated, but the moth — deemed the state’s best hope of controlling the invasive fireweed that has invaded massive areas of Hawaii pastureland — has become established, a ...

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 ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Ipswich. Followed categories will be added to My News. Mr Madden was responding to Cr David Pahlke's comments in the QT that the state had "watered down" ...

The potential of Colletotrichum dematium f.sp. epilobii (ATCC 20981) to control fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) was investigated. Under controlled environment conditions, plant age, inoculum ...