The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) is about to begin work on removing a choking weed from Breaksea Island off the coast of Albany. DEC says the "pigs ear" weed which is native to ...

Oct. 6, 2009— -- Across the South, there's a weed that man can no longer kill. It's called the pig weed, and for decades farmers controlled it by spraying their fields with herbicides.