
Threshold Concepts: The Key to Effective Weed Control
Jun 12, 2025 · Effective weed control is crucial to maintaining crop health, increasing yields, and ensuring food security. One of the key strategies in achieving successful weed control is …
However, because most weed populations generate effects that carry over to following years, an eco-nomically-defined action threshold that deals solely with impact in the current sea-son is not suited to …
Level of threshold weed density does not affect the ... - ScienceDirect
May 1, 1997 · Weed control thresholds are often presented as a means to reduce unnecessary control measures, thereby increasing the effectiveness of weed management. While the threshold is a useful …
5.7 Critical Period of Weed Control – Principles of Weed Control
Critical Period of Weed Control is a threshold commonly used, which is relative to time from planting date. Researchers have identified at what point during the growing season weeds can inflict the most …
Economic Threshold Weed Control Farming: Smart Decision Guide
Nov 15, 2025 · Adopting economic threshold weed control farming practices typically reduces herbicide costs while maintaining profitability. University research demonstrates that threshold-based programs …
Regardless of the type, thresholds imply that weed effects are population dependent, and as such, allow some type of prediction to be made relative to the consequences of control decisions.
Integrating Biodiversity Benefits of Weeds into the Economic Threshold ...
May 24, 2025 · We estimated the weed economic thresholds incorporating existence values for three weed scenarios varying in species and densities. The results indicate that the updated weed …