Palmer amaranth has been discovered in another southeast
Minnesota county.

Tony Cortilet with the Minnesota Department of Ag says a crop consultant scouting for weeds in a Winona County soybean field reached out a couple weeks ago.

“Saw some strange pigweeds and brought it to our attention. We were out on site within the day, and were able to morphologically tell that it was Palmer amaranth.”

He tells Brownfield the noxious weed tested positive for resistance to glyphosate.

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