The findings, which were published on the Moms Across America website, garnered national media attention and quickly led to a good deal of public concern about the safety of glyphosate, a product widely
used for weed control for over 30 years.
«I don't want growers to solely rely upon any one
herbicide for weed control, because if they do, it may reduce the effective life span of that technology.»
Williams acknowledges that early - killed rye alone won't be a silver bullet
for weed control in edamame.
Herbicides are used on only 7 % of the alfalfa acreage in the country as «companion crops» in alfalfa fields are commonly utilized by dairy and beef
producers for weed control and nutritional balance in livestock diets.
We use specially designed undervine mowers built and modified by our own engineering
department for weed control — weed control is one of the hardest parts of farming organically.
«Some of our organic farming practices include cultivating between the rows of
trees for weed control and only using organic fertilisers within our orchard.»
In the third year, herbicides were used in the non-organic system to control monocotyledonous weeds, while only biomass ashes were spread on the soil surface in the organic
system for weed control, but also to prevent frost damage.
Utilizing cover crop
mulches for weed control can reduce organic producers» dependency on cultivation, thereby reducing weed control failure due to unfavorable weather.
BUT you do have to be careful that you get your straw from a source that does NOT use Roundup or related
products for weed control.
Hubert Mullner, another of the Hoechst team, says that tests show that using Basta after emergence may reduce total herbicide use dramatically: «Farmers now use between 2 and 6 kilograms of herbicides per hectare on sugar beet, one of the most difficult
crops for weed control.
Dr. Huber: «They used
it for weed control.