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07/17/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Cost prohibitive AND completely ineffective: Weeds can no longer be controlled by herbicides, demanding new management strategies

The continued use of herbicides has given rise to weeds resistant to these chemicals, calling for the utilization of new weed management strategies. This was the conclusion that a multi-institutional team of researchers came to in their study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. The study, a cooperative work among scientists from the University of […]

03/15/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Evaluation of the economic impact and productivity performance of sheep grazing weeds in coffee plantations compared to pastures

A 2017 study published in Agroforestry Systems found that sheep could be utilized as a practical and beneficial method of controlling weeds at coffee plantations. Testing was conducted 40 days before coffee was harvested from a plantation in the municipality of Comapa in Veracruz, Mexico. The researchers used 32 male Pelibuey lambs that they divided […]

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