Global Neighbor, Inc’s Directed Energy (DE) weed control technology
What we do
Global Neighbor, Inc. (GNI) has successfully developed multiple products and continues to lead the way in weed control using clean, environmentally friendly, Directed Energy (DE) technologies. Being committed to protecting the earth and the environment, thus being global neighbors, we set out to eliminate the need for harmful herbicides to control weeds for both homeowners and farmers.
Field chemicals used in crops and lawns have many negative environmental and economic impacts, including algae blooms and fish die offs from chemical runoffs, damage to adjacent crops from herbicide drift, and increasing weed control costs and falling yields from herbicide resistance weeds.
When our blend of light is applied at high intensity for short duration, it controls weed seeds, seedlings, and unwanted plants.
For homeowners wanting to safely control weeds in their lawns and gardens, WeedErase DE is available at leading dealers (click the picture to the right to see where WeedErase is sold).
For farmers, we are hard at work developing products for terminating cover crops, controlling weeds that persist through the terminated cover crop mat, controlling weeds in grain crops, and destroying weed seeds at harvest.
Company's story
A blend of light applied at high intensity for short duration to kill weed seeds, seedlings, and plants is Directed Energy (DE) weed control.
GNI’s patented DE weed-control technology eradicates unwanted plants using dual-wavelength, unnatural illumination sources.
Some wavelengths penetrate deeply into the plant and its root crown to disrupt plant growth mechanisms. Other wavelengths explode chloroplasts to disrupt a plant’s ability to perform photosynthesis.
Damage to the root crown, and defoliation lead to the slow death of the unwanted plant.
Global Neighbor was founded with a single mission: to reduce chemical usage around the home and farm. Starting in Central State University’s Sustainability Incubator and through intense research, our directed energy technology was discovered and was supported for further development by the US Air Force. Our first commercial product from all this research is a handheld DE tool, now called the Weederase. This handheld product is licensed to Viatek Consumer Products Group and being sold in many online and catalog retailers.
As we improved our DE technology for the lawn and garden market, farmers worldwide began to take note of its potential to solve agricultural issues. These farmers faced difficulties with herbicide-resistant weeds, weed-control labor costs, and glyphosate environmental concerns. GNI is focused on addressing and mitigating these critical challenges.
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