Mechanical Weed Control in Organic Cropping Systems
- Resources
- Soils and Fertility
- Horticulture
- Field Crops
- Crop Rotation
- Pest Management
- Season Extension
- Seed Production and Plant Breeding
- Livestock
- Ecology and Environment
- Nutrition, Safety and Health of Organic Foods
- Post-harvest Handling, Storage and Processing
- Social Science
- Marketing and Economics
- Transition to Organic
- Canadian Organic Research Priorities
Practical Resources
- Abrasive Weeding: A New Tool for Weed Management in Organic Agriculture
- eOrganic. 2017
- Abrasive Weeding: Efficiency, Multifunctionality and Profitability
- eOrganic. 2018
- Blasting the Competition Away: Air-propelled Abrasive Grits for Weed Management in Organic Grain and Vegetable Crops Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2015
- Canadian farmer shares his two-prong attack on Canada thistle
- Rodale Institute. 2006
- Cultivation and Seedbank Management for Improved Weed Control Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2012
- Farm equipment: The best bang for your buck with Jeremiah Evans, Ward Middleton and Steve Shirtliffe
- Prairie Organics: Think Whole Farm Recorded Presentations. 2016
- The final frontier: Non-chemical, intrarow, weed control for annual crops with a focus on mini-ridgers
- BHU Future Farming Centre. 2014
- Harrowing for Weed Control and Improved Yield [PDF - 94 kB]
- OACC. 2006
- OACC. 2006
- Harrowing on Saskatchewan Farms [PDF - 636 kB]
- OACC. 2008
- OACC. 2008
- Mechanical Weed Control in Vegetable Production Video
- FiBL. 2013
- FiBL. 2013
- Mechanical Weeding Equipment for Field Crops [PDF - 3.7 MB]
- Technaflora. 2001
- Mechanical Weeding of Cereals [PDF - 1.2 MB]
- Technialora. 2003
- Mechanical Weeding of Corn [PDF - 1.0 MB]
- Centre de développement d'agrobiologie. 2003
- Mechanical Weeding of Soybeans [PDF - 1.2 MB]
- Technaflora. 2003
- Organic Weed Management
- Oleksandr Alba, University of Manitoba. 2017
- Robotic weeders. Coming to a farm near you?
- OrganicBiz. 2018
- Steel in the Field: A Farmer’s Guide to Weed Management Tools
- Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education. 2001
- Stubble cultivation to control rooted weeds in organic agriculture (Video)
- FiBL. 2016
- Tools for minimising laborious hand-weeding in row crops
- Organic Eprints. 2012
- Organic Eprints. 2012
- Top Tips for Mechanical Cultivation
- Rodale Institute. 2013
- Rodale Institute. 2013
- Use of Tillage in Organic Farming Systems: The Basics
- eOrganic. 2015
- Weed 'Em and Reap Part 1. Tools for Organic Weed Management in Vegetable Cropping Systems
- eOrganic. 2013
- Whacking Weeds Organically
Scientific Results
- Air-propelled abrasive grits reduce weed abundance and increase yields in organic vegetable production
- Crop Protection (2015) 77: 157-162
- Automated intelligent rotor tine cultivation and punch planting to improve the selectivity of mechanical intra-row weed control
- Weed Research (2012) 52: 327-337
- Combining mechanical rhizome removal and cover crops for Elytrigia repens control in organic barley systems
- Weed Research (2013) 53: 461-469
- Control of Elymus repens by rhizome fragmentation and repeated mowing in a newly established white clover sward
- Weed Research (2017) 57: 172-181
- Cropping system effects on giant foxtail demography: I. Green manure and tillage timing
- Weed Science (2003) 51: 919-929
- Direct control of perennial weeds between crops – Implications for organic farming
- Crop Protection (2012) 40: 36-42
- Disentangling the Effects of Tillage Timing and Weather on Weed Community Assembly
- Agriculture (2017) 7(8): 66
- Effects of Weed-Free Periods on Organic Romaine Lettuce Production
- Journal of Crop Improvement (2018) 32:124-139
- Evaluation of mechanical weed control in legume crops
- Crop Protection (2018) 104:52-59
- An Evaluation of Two Novel Cultivation Tools
- Weed Technology (2012) 26: 316-325
- Harrington Seed Destructor: A New Nonchemical Weed Control Tool for Global Grain Crops
- Crop Science (2012) 52: 1343-1347
- How do weeds differ in their response to the timing of tillage? A study of 61 species across the northeastern United States
- Annals of Applied Biology (2017) 171: 340-352
- Impact of Spring Wheat Planting Density, Row Spacing, and Mechanical Weed Control on Yield, Grain Protein, and Economic Return in Maine
- Weed Science (2012) 60: 244-253
- Importance of timing and repetition of stubble cultivation for post-harvest control of Elymus repens
- Weed Research (2016) 56: 41-49
- Integrated Systems of Weed Management in Organic Transplanted Vidalia® Sweet Onion Production
- HortTechnology (2012) 22: 64-69
- Integrating Cultural and Mechanical Methods for Additive Weed Control in Organic Systems
- Agronomy Journal (2013) 105: 1728-1734
- Integrating Weed and Vegetable Crop Management with Multifunctional Air-Propelled Abrasive Grits
- Weed Technology (2014) 28: 243-252
- Interactions among Cultivations, Weeds and a Biofungicide in Organic Vadalia ® Sweet Onion
- Weed Technology (2017) 31:890-896
- Interactions between pre- and post-emergence weed harrowing in spring cereals
- Weed Research (2012) 52: 338-347
- Mechanical, thermal and robotic weeding for minimising laborious hand-weeding in row crops
- Organic Eprints. 2012
- Mechanical wounding under field conditions: A potential tool to increase the allelopathic inhibitory effect of cover crops on weeds?
- European Journal of Agronomy (2013) 52: 229-236
- Organic Weed Management in Field Crops with a Propane Flamer and Rotary Hoe
- Weed Technology (2012) 26: 793-799
- Predictive modelling of weed seed movement in response to superficial tillage tools
- Soil and Tillage Research (2014) 138: 1-8
- Pre-emergence mechanical weed control in field pea (Pisum sativum L.)
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science (2010) 90: 133-138
- Reducing the germinable weed seedbank with soil disturbance and cover crops
- Weed Research (2010) 50: 341-352
- Short-term effect of soil disturbance by mechanical weeding on plant available nutrients in an organic vs. conventional rotations experiment
- Aspects of Applied Biology (2006) 79: 301-305
- Tillage as a driver of change in weed communities: a functional perspective
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2016) 222: 276-285
- Tillage compromises weed seed predator activity across developmental stages
- Biological Control (2015) 81: 76-82
- Tillage effects on weed communities in an organic winter wheat–sunflower–spelt cropping sequence
- Weed Research (2011) 51: 413-421
- Timing of Tillage as a Driver of Weed Communities
- Weed Science (2017) 65: 504-514
- Weed harrowing in organically grown cereal crops avoids yield losses without reducing weed diversity
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development (2013) 33: 405-411