With all herbicides banned, manual weeding is usually a considerable cost factor in organic coffee production.From theCambridge English Corpus
Each farmer decides the rotation, and the amount and the time of application of fertilizers and herbicides.From theCambridge English Corpus
In other words, the technological fix ofherbicide-resistant crops is transient, requiring continual reinvigoration by more advanced technology.From theCambridge English Corpus
The most important genetically engineered crops that have been introduced contained genes encoding insect resistance andherbicidetolerance; they were soybean, maize, cotton and canola.From theCambridge English Corpus
Given the erosion potential, environmental concerns associated with herbicides, and herbicideresistant weeds, alternative cropping systems that mitigate these problems need to be assessed economically.From theCambridge English Corpus
The former allow farmers to increaseherbicideapplications without risking damage to their crops, while the latter run the risk of creating pesticide immune pests.From theCambridge English Corpus
This increased yields for the life-time of the plantation while also permitting a more effective subsequent deployment of fertilisers and herbicides.From theCambridge English Corpus
The pre-emergenceherbicidewas used every year uniformly to all the treatments to control weeds.From theCambridge English Corpus
Applying a selectiveherbicideto the no-till intercrop treatment would have stunted alfalfa growth and therefore would probably have benefitted wheat growth and production.From theCambridge English Corpus
The integration of livestock into the farm operation can increase the use of forages and allow forherbicideuse reduction31.From theCambridge English Corpus
But where and on what scale irrigation, fertilisers, and herbicides would be allocated for food production on newly freed up cane land remained obscure.From theCambridge English Corpus
Most winegrape growers, on the other hand, disked for weeds and use pre-emergent herbicides.From theCambridge English Corpus
They also respond to the labor market effects of employment creation in the industrial sector by substituting herbicides for increasingly expensive weeding labor.From theCambridge English Corpus
The most commonly cited for ms of control require careful use of chemical herbicides.From theCambridge English Corpus
Surviving weeds that had received sublethal doses ofherbicidewere less competitive than untreated ones.From theCambridge English Corpus
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