As herbicides become less effective and availability reduces, physical weeding is becoming a popular topic of conversation. This arable update outlines the differences between the two main classes of mechanical weeders: contiguous weeders that weed the whole field surface, and incontiguous weeders that treat the intrarow and interrow with different weeding tools.
Read Extra 134 Mechanical weed management here
See also:
Extra 132 Integrated weed management
Extra 133 Weed management – getting the timing right
Extra 135 Non-chemical weed management - harvest and the weed seed bank
Extra 136 Non-chemical weed management – stale and false seedbeds