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| Rueda-Ayala, Victor; Rasmussen, Jesper; Gerhards, Roland. |
| Side effects of herbicides and increasing prevalence of organic farming nduce the need of further developments in mechanical weed control. Mechanical weed control is mainly associated with cultivating tillage (e.g. tertiary tillage), but also primary and secondary tillage influence weeds. Cultivating tillage is performed in growing crops with harrows, hoes, brushes and a number of special tools for intra-row weed control. Inter-row cultivations have been used in many decades in row crops and perform in general well. To increase their capacity and accuracy, guidance systems are important to steer the hoes along the rows. The success of inter- and intra-row cultivation is highly influenced by selectivity factors. The control mechanisms of all cultivating... |
| Tipo: Book chapter |
Palavras-chave: Soil tillage; Weed management. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/17843/4/17843.pdf |
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