Concern about potential increases in weed populations without the use of herbicides has
limited the uptake of organic farming. However, as both public demands for organic produce …

Increasing concerns about pesticide use and a steadily increasing conversion to organic
farming have been major factors driving research in physical and cultural weed control …

Physical, cultural and biological methods for weed control have developed largely
independently and are often concerned with weed control in different systems: physical and …

In minor crops the low availability or absence of herbicides impose to adopt an integrated
use of non-chemical weed control methods. Minor crops include mostly vegetables, fruits …

Weed control has always been closely associated with farming. It is very likely that the first
weeding action was by hand-pulling. This was followed by using a stick which became a …

Physical removal of weeds by soil disturbance prior to planting, and by hoeing and hand-
weeding during crop growth are undoubtedly the oldest forms of agricultural weed …

The interest for organic crop production is in the increase due to a strong demand for
organic food from consumers and an attractive income potential for farmers. Weeds pose …

Methods of non-chemical weed control that could be used in organic systems were reviewed
previously as part of a desk study funded by MAFF (Bond & Grundy, 1998). Other reviews of …

Abstract Effects of several stale seedbed procedures on weed density and biomass were
evaluated on a silt loam soil in central New York, USA, during the 1997 and 1998 growing …

Punch planting is introduced as a new method to reduce weeds within rows in organically
grown crops. In this method a hole is punched in the soil, and a seed is dropped into it …