Some sugarbeet growers are returning to a decade’s old weed control approach because of herbicide resistance.
Kevin Olson is the president of LASCO Manufacturing, which uses a patented electric discharge system on its Lightning Weeder tool to kill weeds.
He tells Brownfield the weeder was developed by Allis Chalmers in the early 1980’s in response to chemically resistant weeds, but production dipped when the company experienced financial trouble.