To meet the grand challenges of agricultural production including climate change impacts
on crop production, a tight integration of social science, technology and agriculture experts …

Reducing pesticide use in agriculture is necessary to preserve natural resources. However,
pest control without pesticides is a challenging issue. In particular, weed infestation may …

Weed surveys provide the basis for weed management research in lowbush blueberry, but
have not been conducted in Nova Scotia since 2001. Documented declines in herbicide …

Hair fescue is a widespread, seed-limited perennial grass in lowbush blueberry fields.
Growers rely on pronamide, an expensive and difficult herbicide to use, for hair fescue …

Weeds are harmful for crop production but are crucial for biodiversity in agricultural
landscapes. Two contrasting strategies exist for reconciling these ecosystem services …

In conventional farming, farmers usually use tillage equipment to improve the soil structure
and to control weeds. But they actually damage the soil structure and contribute to reduced …

Cultivation of lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton), an important crop in the
eastern part of North America, is unique, as it is carried out over the course of two …

Hair fescue (Festuca filiformis) is a tuft-forming perennial grass that reduces yields in
lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) fields. Nonbearing year foramsulfuron …

Flazasulfuron was evaluated for crop safety and efficacy on hair fescue (Festuca filiformis
Pourr.) in wild blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Ait.) fields. Treatments consisted of …

Sheep and hair fescue are perennial, tuft forming grasses that spread by seed and form
dense sods in wild blueberry fields. These sods compete with the crop for resources and …