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Research in Weed Control for Organic Field Crops
General Weed Management
- NEW!! Can Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Reduce the Growth of Agricultural Weeds?
- Arable plant communities as indicators of farming practice
- The benefits of using quantile regression for analysing the effect of weeds on organic winter wheat
- Challenges and opportunities for integrated weed management
- Changing Weed Populations Under Long-term Organic Management (Video)
- Effects of organic farming on weed flora composition in a long term perspective
- Effects of Seeding Rate and Poultry Litter on Weed Suppression from a Rolled Cereal Rye Cover Crop
- Integrated management of disease, insect and weed pests
- Organic Weed Control website
- Linking Farmer Weed Management Behavior with Weed Pressure: More than Just Technology
- Management Filters and Species Traits: Weed Community Assembly in Long-Term Organic and Conventional Systems
- A review of the recruitment biology of winter annual weeds in Canada
- Rolled Rye Mulch for Weed Suppression in Organic No-Tillage Soybeans
- The skinny on a big problem…weeds
- WECOF-DSS, a Tool for Weed Control in Winter Wheat
- Weed characteristics
- Weed Control Strategies for Carrots
- Weed–crop competition relationships differ between organic and conventional cropping systems
- Weeds – how to prevent new problems
- Weed Management in Canadian Potatoes
- Weed seedbanks in arable fields: effects of management practices and surrounding landscape
- Weed Vegetation of Organic and Conventional Dryland Cereal Fields
Cultural Management
- NEW!! Weeds and crop yields under conservation tillage in organic farming
- NEW!! The Effect of Rotation and In-Crop Weed Management on the Germinable Weed Seedbank after 10 Years
- Advances in Weed Management for Organic Cereal Production
- Blade Roller–Green Manure Interactions on Nitrogen Dynamics, Weeds, and Organic Wheat
- Brassica cover cropping for weed management: A review
- Can Annual Intercrops Help Control Weeds and Improve Productivity?
- Canada Thistle Suppression with Buckwheat or Sudangrass Cover Crops and Mowing
- Comparison of Leafy and Semi-leafless Pea for Integrated Weed Management
- Crop sequence, crop protection and fertility management effects on weed cover in an organic/conventional farm management trial
- Cropping system effects on giant foxtail demography: I. Green manure and tillage timing
- Cultivar and seeding rate effects on the competitive ability of spring cereals grown under organic production in northern Canada
- Effect of sweetclover cultivars and management practices on following weed infestations and wheat yield
- Effects of reduced tillage, fertilisation and biodynamic preparations
- Effects of Seeding Rate and Poultry Litter on Weed Suppression from a Rolled Cereal Rye Cover Crop
- Enhancing the Competitive Ability of Organic Oat (Avena sativa L.) Cropping Systems
- Feasibility of Organic Weed Management in Sweet Corn and Snap Bean for Processing
- Field pea -- manage seeding for best pre-emergence weed control
- Improving weed management in organic spring barley: physical weed control vs. interspecific competition
- Increased weed diversity, density and above-ground biomass in long-term organic crop rotations
- Influence of annual forages on weed dynamics
- Influence of Cropping Systems on Soil Aggregate and Weed Seedbank Dynamics During the Organic Transition Period
- 'Living mulch' combats weeds naturally
- Manipulating Crop Row Orientation to Suppress Weeds and Increase Crop Yield
- Mechanisms of weed suppression in cover crop–based production systems
- The Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) Organic Research Forum 2010
- Optimal weed management in crop rotations: incorporating economics is crucial
- Organically Managed No-Tillage Rye–Soybean Systems: Agronomic, Economic, and Environmental Assessment
- Optimum Plant Population Densities for 3 Annual Green Manure Crops
- Reduced tillage effects on soil properties and growth of cereals and associated weeds under organic farming
- Reducing the germinable weed seedbank with soil disturbance and cover crops
- A rotation design to reduce weed density in organic farming
- Seeding Rate Effects on Weed Control and Yield for Organic Soybean Production
- Seeding Rate As A Method Of Weed Control In Organic Wheat Production
- Soybean Cultivar Response to Planting Date and Seeding Rate under Organic Management
- Spring wheat yield response to variable seeding rates in organic farming systems at different fertility regimes
- Using allelopathic and cover crops to suppress weeds
- Utilization of Allelopathy for Weed Management in Agroecosystems
- The Weed-Competitive Ability of Canada Western Red Spring Wheat Cultivars Grown under Organic Management
- Weed-Competitive Ability of Spring and Winter Cereals in the Northern Great Plains
- Weed control -- false seed bed technique
- Weed Seed Persistence and Microbial Abundance in Long-Term Organic and Conventional Cropping Systems
- Weed Seedbank Dynamics in Three Organic Crop Rotations
Flame Weeding and Steaming
- Effects of band-steaming on microbial activity and abundance in organic farming soil
- Growth Stage-Influenced Differential Response of Foxtail and Pigweed Species to Broadcast Flaming
- Punch planting, flame weeding and delayed sowing to reduce intra-row weeds in row crops
- Timing and propane dose of broadcast flaming to control weed population influenced yield of sweet maize
- Tolerance of selected weed species to broadcast flaming at different growth stages
- Weed Response to Flame Weeding at Different Developmental Stages
- Weed Susceptibility to Steam Injury
- Yield and yield components of soybean are influenced by the timing of broadcast flaming
Mechanical Weed Control
- Adapting Mechanical Weed Control to Conventional Cropping Systems: What are the Possibilities?
- Continuous No-Till Organic Grain Production: Possible?
- Cost-effective weed control in cereals using inter-row hoeing
- Inter-row cultivation -- effective weed control in field pea?
- Mechanical Weed Control with a Harrow or Rotary Hoe
- Mechanical Weeding of Cereals
- A method for mechanically killing cover crops to optimize weed suppression
- Photocontrol -- tilling in the dark?
- Physical methods for weed control in potatoes
- Physical Weed Control for Ecological Farming
- Post-emergence harrowing for weed control
- Pre-emergence mechanical weed control in field pea
- Selectivity -- an important concept in mechanical weed control
- Short-term effects of mechanical weeding on soil and tissue N in snap beans grown in an organic vs. conventional rotations
- Short-term effect of soil disturbance by mechanical weeding on plant available nutrients in organic vs. conventional rotations
- Tillage effects on weed communities in an organic winter wheat–sunflower–spelt cropping sequence
- Weed Control Comparisons in Spring and Barley
Mowing and Grazing
- Canada Thistle Suppression with Buckwheat or Sudangrass Cover Crops and Mowing
- Clipping weeds above a crop canopy
- Clipping Weeds Above The Crop Canopy Reduces Seedling Recruitment
- Compatibility of Seed Head Biological Control Agents and Mowing for Management of Spotted Knapweed
- Control of Canada thistle in pastures using rotational cattle grazing
- In crop weed clipping for organic weed control (PDF, 1.7 MB)
Organic Herbicides
- An organic option for broadleaved weed control in cereals using a microbial bioherbicide
- Efficacy Comparison of Some New Natural-Product Herbicides for Weed Control at Two Growth Stages
- Evaluating Interceptor -- an organic herbicide
- Herbicidal Effects of Vinegar and a Clove Oil Product on Redroot Pigweed and Velvetleaf
- The Macrocidins: Novel Cyclic Tetramic Acids with Herbicidal Activity
- Potential Of Acetic Acid, Pelargonic Acid And Pine Extract As "Organic Herbicides"
- Vinegar for Pre-Seed and Post-Emergence Control of Broadleaf Weeds
Biological Control
- Biological weed control
- Effect of cover cropping systems on invertebrate seed predation
- Impact of agricultural management systems on carabid beetle communities and invertebrate weed seed predation
- Plant colonization and environmental fate of the biocontrol fungus Phoma macrostoma
- Seasonal patterns in post-dispersal seed predation in three cropping systems