[APWG] NEWS: Taking control of weeds (ND)

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/523374.html?nav=5010

Taking control of weeds
Grant to help ranchers, farmers combat invasive weeds

By WHITNEY PANDIL-EATON, Staff Writer wpandileaton at minotdailynews.com
POSTED: January 20, 2009

Invasive and noxious weeds have been known to disrupt soil nutrient and 
water distribution, affecting native grasses and plant populations as well 
as being detrimental to the pocketbooks of farmers and ranchers who 
experience production losses as a result of their presence.

In an effort to help educate producers about the effects of these weeds 
and help to eradicate them, the Upper Dakota Resource Conservation and 
Development Council, one of eight regional councils of the North Dakota 
Resource Conservation and Development Association, recently obtained a 
second round of funding to help combat the prevalence of these weeds on 
grazing land in Bottineau, Burke, McHenry, Mountrail, Pierce, Renville and 
Ward counties.

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