Agricultural systems in the EU have become more vulnerable and less sustainable due to an
overreliance on herbicides and the tremendous increase in herbicide-resistant weeds. The …

Achieving sustainable crop production while feeding an increasing world population is one
of the most ambitious challenges of this century 1. Meeting this challenge will necessarily …

Reducing herbicide use in crop** systems is an increasingly important objective in many
regions of the world. Band herbicide application combined with mechanical cultivation in …

Herbicides have been the principal means of weed control in developed countries for
approximately 50 yr because they are the most cost-effective method. Such general use of …

Weed management is a critically important activity on both agricultural and non‐agricultural
lands, but it is faced with a daunting set of challenges: environmental damage caused by …

Demands for drastically reducing pesticide use call for different perspectives and narratives
that can open new understandings of pesticide use and enact new action plans …

Increasing crop rotation diversity while reducing herbicide applications may maintain
effective weed control while reducing freshwater toxicity. To test this hypothesis, we applied …

Crop rotation is a simple and effective part of an Integrated Weed Management (IWM)
system. This approach makes it possible to rotate herbicides with different modes of action …

Herbicides have facilitated weed management but their incorrect use can lead to
environmental contamination. Reducing herbicide use by limiting their application to a band …

Traditional sprayers are limited to applying spray mixture solely to the upper surfaces of
crops. To overcome this limitation, a variable angle spraying machine (VASM) was designed …