This study discusses the methodical problems which occur during the process of generating weed distribution maps in geoinformation systems (GIS). Particular attention will be paid to the question of whether or not the weed sampling data and the weed distribution maps for site-specific weed control are sufficiently representative. Manual or image-processing sampling procedures are applied in ord...

Herbicide safeners, formerly referred to as herbicide antidotes, are chemical agents that increase the tolerance of monocotyledonous cereal plants to herbicides without affecting the weed control effectiveness. The use of safeners offer several benefits to agricultural weed control. Safeners may allow: (1) the selective chemical control of weeds in botanically related crops; (2) the use of nons...

Farmers need alternatives for weed control due to the desire to reduce chemicals used in farming. However, conventional mechanical cultivation cannot selectively remove weeds located in the seedline between crop plants and there are no selective herbicides for some crop/weed situations. Since hand labor is costly, an automated weed control system could be feasible. A robotic weed control system...

The most widely used method for weed control is to use agricultural chemicals (herbicides products). This heavy reliance on chemicals raises many environmental and economic concerns, causing many plantation companies to seek alternatives for weed control in order to reduce chemical usage in their plantation. Since manual labor is costly and expensive, an automated weed control system may be eco...

• Solarization Stapleton, J. J., Molinar, R. H., Lynn-Patterson, K., McFeeters, S. K., and Shrestha, A. 2005. Methyl bromide alternatives. Soil solarization provides weed control for limited-resource and organic growers in warmer climates. California Agriculture 59 (2):84-89. PDF Abstract: This paper describes the use of soil solarization technology for weed management, as conducted by the Univ...

In order to evaluate the impact of crop residues (zero, 25 and 50%) and nitrogen (zero, 125 and 250 kg ha) on weed seed bank and potato yield, two-years research was conducted as a split plot arranged in randomized complete block design in Rozveh Agriculture Research Station, Freidan-Esfahan. Numbers of weed species in seed bank, aboveground, and both seed bank and aboveground were 1, 2 and...

use of atrazine in the Midwest would have important economic consequences for farmers, consumers, and the environment. These consequences can only be evaluated with cooperation between economists and weed scientists. The weed control choice set available to farmers cannot be observed through deductive research. Economists and weed scientists worked together to identify all possible weed control...

Unconventional ways of growing plants, when we return to non-chemical methods of controlling weeds, require new weed control methods. One of the few physical methods, which found wider application in practice, is a flame weeder with heat burners based on the use of gas (LPG). However, the process of practical use of this flame weeder has a number of factors that positively or negatively affect ...

abstract in order to determine the critical period of weed control in euro-flour variety of sunflower (helianthus annus, l.) an experimental was conducted with a randomized complete block design with 10 treatments and three replications in islamic azad university astara-branch-agricultural college in 2006 growing season. experimental treatments were conducted in two sets, the first set included...

in this study, the performance of different cultivation methods on sugar beet fields was evaluated. eight treatments were considered: a) use of a rolling cultivator twice during the growing season; b) use of a rolling cultivator three times during the growing season; c) use of a crescent cultivator twice during the growing season; d) use of a crescent cultivator three times during the growing s...