Weed control demands time, labor and expense for every farmer every year. Steel in the Field shows how today’s implements and techniques can control weeds while reducing—or eliminating—herbicides. In practical language, Steel in the Field presents what farmers and researchers have learned in the last 20 years about cutting weed-control costs through improved cultivation tools, cover crops and new cropping rotations.
Table of Contents
- Publisher's Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Cultivation In Context
- How to Use This Book
- Introduction to Tools for Agronomic Row Crops
- Row Crop Tools
- Rotary hoe, standard
- Rotary hoe, high-residue
- Rotary hoe accessories
- Flex-tine weeder
- Spike-tooth harrow
- Hoes and Harrows to the Rescue
- Introduction To Cultivators
- Cultivator, low-residue
- Cultivar, moderate-residue
- Cultivator, high-residue
- Cultivator, maximum-residue
- Cultivator, rolling
- Cultivator, horizontal disk
- Cultivator sweeps, knives and wings
- Cultivator shields
- Cultivator components
- Hot-Tips for Flame Weeding
- Guidance Systems
- Guidance mirrors
- Guidance, furrower/wheel
- Guidance, ridge mechanical
- Hitch-steer guidance
- Side-shift guidance
- Tool-pivoting guidance
- Disk-steer guidance
- Ridge-till planter
- Row Crop Farmer Profiles