Sentences with phrase «like pigweed»
A somber picture of the struggle against super-weeds emerged today as scientists described the relentless spread of herbicide - resistant menaces like pigweed and horseweed that shrug off powerful herbicides and have forced farmers in some areas to return to the hand - held hoes that were a mainstay of weed control a century ago.
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Its aliases «pigweed» and «little hogweed» convey that people in the United States treat it like a nuisance, though Europeans, South Americans, Middle Easterners, and Asians have been eating it for millennia.
Rather, the battle involves nightmares like Palmer amaranth pigweed, which has been termed the master blueprint for the perfect weed.