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.

For sustainable farmers, hand-weeding can be laborious, backbreaking work and can cost upwards of $300 an acre in labor costs. A French startup called Naïo Technologies is hoping to solve this problem ...

Discussing superweeds, you say that hand weeding crops is effective, though costly (22 June, p 12). But it can be effective only for crops grown in narrow rows with wide spaces between rows that ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carbon Robotics, an agricultural robotics company, today unveiled its 2022 LaserWeeder implement, an autonomous, laserweeding pull-behind robot that seamlessly attaches to ...