Biology Newsfeed

Destructive weed threatens U.S. corn fields

Reuters: Science - Posted: April 5th, 2017, 2:45pm UTC

WINTERSET, IOWA (Reuters) - A U.S. government program designed to convert farmland to wildlife habitat has triggered the spread of a fast-growing weed that threatens to strangle crops in America's rural heartland.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=cY2GwrhBMnQ:oiMba6Fb4j8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=cY2GwrhBMnQ:oiMba6Fb4j8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=cY2GwrhBMnQ:oiMba6Fb4j8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=cY2GwrhBMnQ:oiMba6Fb4j8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=cY2GwrhBMnQ:oiMba6Fb4j8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/cY2GwrhBMnQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

Read more

Return to the Newsfeed