Article
A History of Weed Control in the United States and Canada1
2005-11-01
Abstract excerpt
Available literature indicates that relatively few agricultural leaders and farmers became interested in weeds as a problem before 1200 A.D. or even 1500 A.D. For many centuries, weed control was mostly incidental to tillage for seedbed preparation and growing of crops and to growing and cutting or pasturing of thickly planted crops. Occasional references in literature previous to 1900 mentioned use of mechanical...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3856e90d-ed50-54d8-8bc7-c22e846f771a
- DOI
- 10.1614/0043-1745(2005)053[0748:ahowci]2.0.co;2