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Are No-Till Herbicide-Free Systems Possible? A Simulation Study

Frontiers in Agronomy, 2022
Conservation agriculture (CA) allows farmers to reduce costs and enhance soil health, but tends to increase weed infestation and associated crop yield loss, and/or herbicide use.
Nathalie Colbach, Stéphane Cordeau
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Combining roller crimpers and flaming for the termination of cover crops in herbicide-free no-till cropping systems. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2019
The termination of cover crops in conventional no-till systems is mostly conducted mechanically in combination with herbicides. Combining flaming and roller crimpers could be a viable solution to avoid using herbicides for cover crop termination in farming systems where herbicides are banned, or at least to reduce their use in an integrated management ...
Frasconi C, Martelloni L, Antichi D, Raffaelli M, Fontanelli M, Peruzzi A, Benincasa P, Tosti G.   +7 more
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Cover crops and compost prevent weed seed bank buildup in herbicide-free wheat-potato rotations under conservation tillage. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2019
Abstract Weeds are a major constraint affecting crop yields in organic farming and weed seed bank analysis can be an important tool for predicting weed infestation and assessing farming system sustainability. We compared the weed seed banks two and four years after transition from conventional to reduced tillage in organically managed winter wheat ...
Schmidt JH, Junge S, Finckh MR.
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Herbicide free agriculture? A bio-economic modelling application to Swiss wheat production [PDF]

Agricultural Systems, 2019
Herbicide application in agricultural systems is currently critically discussed because of its possible adverse effects on the environment and human health. Currently, governments and food industry actors search for solutions to reduce herbicide use on farms. Yet, potential consequences of herbicide reductions on a farm-level are not well known.
Thomas Böcker, Robert Finger, Niklas Möhring   +2 more
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Combined Pre- and Post-Emergence Herbicides for Effective Weed Control in Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) [PDF]

Plants
The scarcity of effective selective herbicides has made weed management a limiting factor for alfalfa yield and large-scale cultivation. This study aimed to preliminarily screen selective herbicides with acceptable safety to alfalfa and establish an ...
Xin-Ran Bao, Yang Gao, Jin-Won Kim, Min-Jung Yook, Do-Soon Kim, Chuan-Jie Zhang   +5 more
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Economics of herbicide-free crop production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
AbstractAmbitious pesticide policies aiming to reduce pesticide applications and risks have been introduced across Europe. Herbicides represent a major part of pesticide use, but the uptake of mechanical or agronomic alternatives remains low. We here explore underlying reasons and provide policy insights for supporting a transformation to herbicide ...
Robert Finger, Niklas Möhring
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Wheat yield is resilient to weed pressure under preventive and herbicide-free integrated weed management

Frontiers in Agronomy
IntroductionThe Swiss PestiRed project aims to reduce pesticide use while maintaining crop productivity by promoting integrated pest management. Despite growing interest in integrated weed management (IWM), its performance under long-term, farmer managed
Victor Rueda-Ayala, Jérôme Wassef, Sandie Masson, Selma Cadot, Philippe Jeanneret, Judith Wirth   +5 more
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Diversity and Behaviour of the Naturally Regenerated Vegetation in Commercial Tea Soils Under Herbicide Free Integrated Weed Management

Procedia Food Science, 2016
AbstractWeed management is essential in agriculture to prevent Economic Crop Damage in farm products due to quality and quantity losses. Herbicides are profusely being used to meet this objective despite their hazardous nature on human health and the environment caused by residual contamination of food and drinking water. Sri Lanka imported 7,967,852kg
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Hot foam and hot water for weed control: A comparison

Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 2021
Thermal weed control plays an important role in managing weeds in synthetic herbicide-free systems, particularly in organic agriculture and in urban areas where synthetic herbicides are prohibited.
Luisa Martelloni, Christian Frasconi, Mino Sportelli, Marco Fontanelli, Michele Raffaelli, Andrea Peruzzi   +5 more
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Photosynthetic performance and productivity of maize (Zea mays L.), exposed to simulated drift of imazamox and subsequent therapy application with protein hydrolysates [PDF]

Journal of Central European Agriculture, 2023
The use of herbicides is а traditional method for weed control in crop-producing systems. Along with the high effective weed control, herbicides might cause phytotoxicity for crop plants, due to insufficient herbicide selectivity, combining herbicide ...
Dobrinka Balabanova, Nesho Neshev, Mariyan Yanev, Lyubka Koleva-Valkova, Andon Vassilev   +4 more
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