RURAL VALLEY CITY, N.D. - Barnes County Weed Control Officer Jim McAllister stood in a pasture that a decade ago was filled with tightly bunched leafy spurge. Cattle wouldn't eat the weed, and so the ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- South Dakota State University Extension and the South Dakota Department of Agriculture encourage landowners to collect and redistribute leafy spurge beetles in their pastures. "With ...

March’s Weed of the Month, leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) is an invader of pastures, forage, grasslands, and ditches. It is native to Eurasia and has become widespread throughout the United States.

The Whitehall Project will be collecting leafy spurge-eating insects (several species of the leafy spurge flea beetle Aphthona) and making them available to the public. If you would like some of these ...

MOSCOW, Idaho — Madison County rancher Galen Lusk has grown accustomed to finding isolated patches of leafy spurge within his dryland pastures in recent years. This season, however, a wet spring ...

Darrell Deneke remembers the initial skepticism years ago about using flea beetles to control leafy spurge, one of the Upper Midwest's most dangerous weeds. "But biocontrols are pretty well accepted ...

Leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) is a creeping perennial native to Eurasia. It was most likely introduced into the U.S. as a contaminate in seed. It invades rangelands, roadsides, pastures and riparian ...

Leafy spurge has a very extensive root system, most of which is in the top foot of soil, but the vertical roots may grow to depths of 15 feet or more. This root system contains substantial nutrient ...

I received a call last week from a local producer who asked about managing leafy spurge in his pastures and the grazing restrictions after making a herbicide application. Leafy spurge is an aggressive ...