Herbicides for Gentians

Herbicides as Ripeners for Sugarcane

Chemical ripening of sugarcane is an important component to profitable sugar production in the United States as well as other sugarcane industries throughout the world. Harvesting of sugarcane often begins before the sugarcane reaches the desirable maturity level. This is especially true in the Louisiana sugarcane industry where the window for harvesting is limited because of the risk of freezi...

Herbicides for Natural Area Weed Management

Soil Spot Herbicides for Single-Stem

Soil spo t t~eahnen!s of undii!z4&Velpar+Landa um.cenb&d mix ture of S#ieQ 8OW were apPl%d around test trees of fnr hardwmi $zies. The test ruteswere2,4,and6mlofherbi&Min.of dbha#iedtothesoilwithin3~ofeuch tree . Hardwood tophill urns assessed af ter two growing seasons. The &ml rate of Velpar L was required to achieve 80% or greater average t@iU of sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) and wakr o...

The Effect of Herbicides

Although some work has been done on the effect of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) on the numbers and kinds of organisms of the soil (Smith, Dawson and Wenzel, 1945; Hoover and Colmer, 1953), on respiration of certain soil organisms (Magee, 1954), and on the effect of this herbicide on certain processes of the soil (Newman, 1947; Jones, 1948; Carlyle and Thorpe, 1947; and Payne and Fults,...

Herbicides in Aquatic Systems