These uninvited guests compete with your other plants for light, water, nutrients, and space. They spread rapidly, multiply in large amounts, and can be very hard to eliminate. You can spend an entire evening pulling every weed in sight, only to find an army of replacements the very next day.
When left unmanaged, pigweed populations can reduce soybean harvests to just 22% of their usual size. Today, farmers rely on a group of chemicals called pesticides to help in the field. This includes herbicides to manage weeds, insecticides to manage bugs, and fungicides to prevent infection by fungal diseases. Most farmers depend on these solutions to effectively control different types of pests while also preserving the environment.
Because of this, familiar and unfortunate scenes are visible once again: teams of hand hoe laborers, hired to come in and manually chop down monster pigweed, and then burn the weeds. It was a practice many considered “long gone” a generation ago, but farmers have revived it as a last resort. Hoe crews start at dawn and work all day long, often in 100-degree heat. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there aren’t many people that are eager to do this job, so there isn’t enough labor to go around.
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