www.sare.org publications manage-weeds-on-your-farm cultural-weed-management Ch 3. Cultural Weed Management ...should be given to planting cover crops to ensure a dense, uniform stand. Cover crop residue can provide weed suppression for no-till crop production. When cover crops flower, they can...
www.sare.org publications manage-weeds-on-your-farm mechanical-physical-weed-management Ch 4. Mechanical and Other Physical Weed Management ...cover crops like red clover and sweet clover penetrate and loosen the subsoil. Killing the cover crop and leaving it on the surface as a mulch for weed suppression will...
www.sare.org publications manage-weeds-on-your-farm farm-profiles Ch 5. Farm Profiles ...crops, fallow periods and tillage depth for incorporation of the cover crops in the spring for the 12 half-acre field sections at Beech Grove Farm. Crops move to the right...
www.sare.org publications manage-weeds-on-your-farm characteristics-of-weeds Characteristics of Weeds That Affect Their Management ...they poison adjacent plants. Weeds that do this include shattercane and common milkweed. Many crops and cover crops, including rye, barley, sorghum-sudangrass and buckwheat, have allelopathic properties, and that activity...
www.sare.org publications manage-weeds-on-your-farm bindweeds Bindweeds ...cause severe problems in many crops. The extensive and efficient root system of field bindweed can reduce soil water content to below the wilting point of most crops. Hedge bindweed...
www.sare.org publications manage-weeds-on-your-farm field-pennycress Field Pennycress ...effectively suppress field pennycress. Use dense winter cover crops of rye or spelt to suppress field pennycress in vegetable crops, but be sure to incorporate these in the spring before...
www.sare.org publications manage-weeds-on-your-farm nightshades Nightshades ...with short cycle vegetable crops in which the weeds do not have time to produce mature fruits. Sod crops set back populations of these weeds since they do not tolerate...
www.sare.org publications manage-weeds-on-your-farm barnyardgrass Barnyardgrass ...may emerge anyway. Mulch placed after the soil warms must be exceptionally dense or thick to be effective. Dense planting of summer cover crops or cash crops that will tolerate...
www.sare.org publications manage-weeds-on-your-farm deadnettles Deadnettles ...after it emerges. Management of winter cover crops is critical for effective long-term control of both species in a vegetable rotation. If fall rye or forage radish cover crops establish...
www.sare.org publications manage-weeds-on-your-farm giant-ragweed Giant Ragweed ...short-lived seed bank a chance to decline in density. Inclusion of crops or cover crops that provide early spring leaf canopy or residue cover that lowers soil temperature delays initiation...