Contact: Eric Gallandt, 581-2933 ORONO — For home gardeners, weeds are a nuisance, but for small-scale growers, they can threaten crops and profitability by sucking up time, labor and money. Though the number of such farmers has grown nationwide, weed-management technology hasn’t kept up. UMaine associate professor of weed ecology and management Eric Gallandt and read more UMaine Weed Researchers Dig for Ways to Help Small-Scale Farmers