Instant Insights: Weed Management in Regenerative Agriculture

Dr Gottlieb Basch is a Full Professor in the Department of Plant Science at the University of Évora, Portugal. He is President of the European Conservation Agriculture Federation and has contributed to a number of EIP AGRI Focus Groups, EU Horizon and other research projects on more sustainable methods of crop cultivation.Dr Sjoerd W. Duiker is Professor of Soil Management and Applied Soil Physics at Penn State University, USA. He has made significant contributions to both research and extension in developing more sustainable soil management practices in such areas as no-till systems, the use of cover crops, mulches and more diverse crop rotations. He is a member of the Governing Board of the Northeast Cover Crops Council which brings together universities, farmers, government agencies and others to optimise cover crop use in the north-eastern states of the USA. Professor Duiker is also a co-editor of the forthcoming Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing collection Weed management in Conservation Agriculture systems.Dr Paolo Bàrberi is Professor of Agronomy and Field Crops and Head of the Agroecology Group at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), an internationally-renowned university in Pisa, Italy (ranked number 4 in the world among small universities, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings). Professor Bàrberi is a founding member and Vice-President of Agroecology Europe and has written over 330 publications on topics in sustainable agriculture, agrobiodiversity and agroecology.Dr Anna-Camilla Moonen is an Assistant Professor in Agronomy and Field Crops at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA). She is a member of the editorial board of Weed Research and her research focuses on agroecological co-design of sustainable cropping systems with a special interest in field margin management, the use of cover crops to manage weed communities, and functional agrobiodiversity in arable and horticultural cropping systems for integrated weed and pest management. She has written over 110 publications in this area.

• Chapter 1 - Weed management practices and benefits in Conservation Agriculture systems: Gottlieb Basch and Fernando Teixeira, University of Évora, Portugal; and Sjoerd W. Duiker, Penn State University, USA; 1 Introduction 2 Weed control under CA 3 Smallholder farmers’ strategies for weed control in developing countries: sub-Saharan Africa 4 Future trends 5 Conclusion 6 Where to look for further information 7 ReferencesChapter taken from: Kassam, A. (ed.), Advances in Conservation Agriculture – Volume 2: Practice and Benefits, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2020, (ISBN 978 1 78676 268 9)Chapter 2 - Integrated weed management in organic cropping systems: Paolo Bàrberi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy; 1 Introduction 2 Key weed management challenges: intra-row weed control 3 Key weed management challenges: problematic weeds and weed management in reduced- and no-till organic systems 4 Integrated weed management and sustainable organic crop production 5 Future trends 6 Where to look for further information 7 ReferencesChapter taken from: Köpke, U. (ed.), Improving organic crop cultivation, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2018, (ISBN 978 1 78676 184 2)Chapter 3 - Cultural techniques to manage weeds: Matt Liebman, Iowa State University, USA; 1 Introduction 2 Crop population density 3 Crop spatial arrangement 4 Sowing time and transplanting 5 Choice of crop genotype and breeding for competitive and allelopathic abilities 6 Mulching 7 Soil fertility management 8 Irrigation and flooding: depth, timing and placement 9 Effects of combining multiple practices: examples of ‘many little hammers’ at work 10 Future trends in research 11 Summary 12 Where to look for further information 13 ReferencesChapter taken from: Zimdahl, R. L. (ed.), Integrated weed management for sustainable agriculture, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2017, (ISBN 978 1 78676 164 4)Chapter 4 - The use of rotations and cover crops to manage weeds: John R. Teasdale, ARS-USDA, USA; 1 Introduction 2 Crop rotation in weed management 3 Cover crops in weed management 4 Opportunities for weed establishment within rotations 5 Conclusion 6 Future trends 7 Where to look for further information 8 ReferencesChapter taken from: Zimdahl, R. L. (ed.), Integrated weed management for sustainable agriculture, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2017, (ISBN 978 1 78676 164 4)Chapter 5 - Optimising integrated weed management in narrow-row crops: L. Bonin, ARVALIS-Institut du Végétal, France; R. Leskovšek, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Slovenia; C. Moonen, Institute of Life Science, Italy; W. Smith, NIAB, UK; and M. Sønderskov, Aarhus University, Denmark; 1 Introduction 2 Cropping system diversification 3 Cultivar choice and establishment 4 Field and soil management 5 Direct control 6 Case studies 7 Where to look for further information 8 ReferencesChapter taken from: Kudsk, P. (ed.), Advances in integrated weed management, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2022, (ISBN 978 1 78676 745 5)