Best Management Practices for Non-Chemical Weed Control manual

Feb 15, 2021

Best Management Practices for Non-Chemical Weed Control

This manual provides comprehensive descriptions of 21 commonly used non-chemical weed control techniques and of biological control agents for 18 weed species/species groups that will help you as a practitioner treat weeds more effectively.

Authors of each chapter have compiled research and on-the-ground knowledge of subject experts on tools and methods of application, as well as on efficacy of techniques under various environmental conditions and across different classes of invasive plants. Environmental, cultural, and human safety risks are also highlighted to help support safe and effective use of techniques. This manual is designed to be a go-to resource for practitioners that are either complementing their weed control work with non-chemical techniques or are exclusively restricted to not using herbicides. Individual BMPs will be incorporated into an online decision support tool still in development.

This manual is available as a free download (291 pp., 21.5 MB). Visit https://www.cal-ipc.org/resources/library/publications/non-chem/.

Contents

Removing Whole Plants (5 techniques)
Controlling Plants by Cutting (6 techniques)
Controlling Plants in Place (3 techniques)
Covering Plants with Sheet Barriers (3 techniques)
Controlling Plants at a Plant Community Scale (4 techniques)
Biological Control (general introduction and descriptions of agents for 18 weed species/species groups)

Source : ucanr.edu

Video: EP 65 Grazing Through Drought

Welcome to the conclusion of the Getting Through Drought series, where we look at the best management practices cow-calf producers in Alberta can use to build up their resiliency against drought.

Our hope is that the series can help with the mental health issues the agriculture sector is grappling with right now. Farming and ranching are stressful businesses, but that’s brought to a whole new level when drought hits. By equipping cow-calf producers with information and words of advice from colleagues and peers in the sector on the best ways to get through a drought, things might not be as stressful in the next drought. Things might not look so bleak either.

In this final episode of the series, we are talking to Ralph Thrall of McIntyre Ranch who shares with us his experience managing grass and cows in a pretty dry part of the province.