95 miles NW of Quitaque, TX | Your statement. Yes he had a few weeds.
I was on a farmer's combine years ago. Every time we went through weeds in the corn row with the combine, the yield would drop 30-40 bu/a. I waw shocked at the yield reduction. The yield reduction did not seem to bother the farmer much. Of course this was before to much RR corn. You need to look at the weed seed bank for that weed/s.
Sometimes farmers spend to much money to do (control) something. The problem is that if you do not control weeds, then the next year the plant weed numbers grow.
One pigweed plant is incredibly prolific, capable of producing anywhere from 100,000 to over 1,000,000 seeds, with figures often cited in the hundreds of thousands (e.g., 100,000-600,000 or 500,000-1,000,000) depending on growing conditions, making it a major agricultural pest due to its rapid population increase. Even under stress, a single plant can produce tens of thousands of seeds, and these tiny seeds are easily spread and can remain viable in the soil for years, perpetuating infestations https://www.farmprogress.com/farm-business/just-how-many-seeds-can-o...
My question is, is it worth the seed production (or rhizome or...) worth not doing anything for a year or two. Be carefull thinking about. Pigweed, redroot, palmar amaranth can screw up calculations in just a couple of years. Then the seed bank is fuller again.
My suggestion is to go organic and then your weed control options get less and more expensive.
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thoughts on weed control without chemicals??
