University of Idaho Extension weed scientist Albert Adjesiwor gets many calls about wild oats thriving in winter-planted small grains as harvest continues in the state’s southeast. “We are just ...

Thanks to plenty of fall rain, an abundance of winter snow and cooler than normal soil temperatures, the wild oat, one of the worst weeds to poke its head up in a wheat or barley field, will be trying ...

With new funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, scientists in Montana State University’s Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology will seek to fill knowledge gaps surrounding an ...

Like crab grass in a suburban lawn, wild oats in a field of wheat are an insidious pest. The stubborn weed looks like wheat, grows like wheat, and is so closely related to wheat that neither ...

The weeds that farmers should watch for in their fields in 2023 include several that are familiar, such as Palmer amaranth, kochia and water hemp. Wild oats are among the weeds that are resistant to ...