Field experiments at Oakes, ND, USA in 2010 and Carrington, ND, USA in 2011 were conducted to evaluate the potential for cover crops grown in the Northern Great Plains, USA in order to reduce weed emergence and density in irrigated potatoes. Treatments included five cover crop treatments and three cover crop termination treatments. Termination of cover crops was done with glyphosate, disk-till,...

Mechanical-chemical synergy has been proven efficient in weed control. However, characterizing the state of weed–soil complex after mechanical weeding and revealing its effects on subsequent herbicide application is still challenging, which restricts implementation this technology. This paper first presents a method to characterize from perspectives fragmentation composite characteristics. The ...

The aim of this three-year field experiment was to determine how simplified (reduced) pre-planting tillage and different weed control methods impact the yield selected quality parameters spelt grain (Triticum aestivum ssp. spelta L.). Conventional three variants reduced (RT) were tested. second experimental variable (weed control) had variants: mechanical (M), combined + chemical treatment at f...

A novel now commonly used device in many countries called a "weed-wacker" is a mechanical rotating device with a cord used to trim lawns and grass. A case of a 14-year old boy with a false aneurysm of the brachial artery is presented; he sustained a missile injury by a piece of rusty steel projected by use of a weed wacker. Missile injuries by nail guns and bullets have been documented in the l...

in order to investigate efficacy of the integrated weed management in cotton fields, three experiments were carried out in three cotton growing areas of iran, including varamin, khorasan, fars in 2006. these experiments were conducted in randomized complete block design with 13 treatments and 4 replications. one of the pre plant soil mixtured herbicides (trifluralin 48% ec and ethalfluralin 33....

Weed control through crop rotation has mainly been studied in a nonspatial context. However, weed seeds are often spread beyond the crop field by a variety of vectors. For weed control to be successful, weed management should thus be evaluated at the landscape level. In this paper we assess how seed dispersal affects the interactions between crop rotation and landscape heterogeneity schemes wit...