SACRAMENTO — A state board on Thursday banned unnecessary hand-weeding on farms to protect workers from back injuries, acting on an emergency basis to fix a problem they had discussed for a decade.

The sight of farm workers weeding in the field, bent over rows of strawberries, carrots and lettuce, soon could become a thing of the past if farm labor groups have their way. The California ...

A Western Australian research project has found it is financially viable to hand weed low numbers of wild radish on a broadacre scale. Hand weeding has been investigated in the mid west of Western ...

The future of weeding is here, and it comes in the form of a robot. Specialty crops such as lettuce, broccoli, tomatoes, and onions may be the first to benefit. The future of weeding is here, and it ...