GROW: Bringing Research and Tools for Integrated Weed Management to Farmers

Recorded April 8, 2025

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Description

GROW (Getting Rid of Weeds) is a nationwide collaborative network of scientists and communications professionals working to coordinate and promote research on integrated weed management (IWM) to help farmers fight herbicide resistance. This webinar introduces their outreach platform, IWM resources, and ongoing research on topics such as cover crops, harvest weed seed control, and precision weed management.

Emily Unglesbee

Director of Outreach & Extension, GROW/Virginia Tech

Emily oversees outreach and communications for the GROW network, and helps manage the organization’s flagship website, www.growiwm.org, as well as its travel and content production. Her background is in journalism (she earned an MA in Journalism & Mass Communications from the University of Missouri), and she reported on crop production for DTN/The Progressive Farmer as a staff reporter for a decade before her transition to GROW in 2022.

Michael Flessner

Extension Weed Specialist, Virginia Tech

Michael is an Associate Professor of Weed Science at Virginia Tech. He earned his MS and PhD in Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences from Auburn University. His current research and extension program focuses on solving weed management challenges currently facing Virginia, with emphasis placed on sustainable and economic solutions to problems like mounting herbicide resistance. He also co-leads the GROW network.

John Wallace

Extension Weed Specialist, Pennsylvania State University

John Wallace is an Associate Professor of Weed Science and Extension Specialist at Penn State University. His extension and research program focuses on developing integrated weed management practices in field and forage crop systems that utilize no-tillage or conservation tillage. He is also a member of the GROW network’s leadership team.