Weed Management
The objective of weed management research at the Model Farm is to reduce the environmental and health impacts caused by the use of weed-control chemicals. Emphasis is placed on developing precision-agriculture approaches together with innovative non-chemical methods of weed control.
The focus of the research is on the development and integration of innovative approaches to weed control, in order to implement sustainable weed-control practices that will have much reduced environmental and health impacts as compared with current weed-control practices. The central research topics focus on the development and implementation of innovative technologies for weed species identification as the basis for exacting weed control, together with new non-chemical methodologies as the basis for integrated weed control. We believe that this approach will greatly reduce the current dependence on the use of herbicides to control weeds.
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Agricultural Research Organization,
Newe Ya‘ar Research Center, P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay, Israel
Phone numbers: 972-4-9539595
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Activity in the field
Effects of cover crops on soil nutrients and soil erosion
I am Simon Futerman, a PhD student at the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Agriculture. I am conducting my doctoral research at the Model Farm’s Field
Service Crops in field-crop cycles
What Are Service Crops? Accepted practice in conservation agriculture is ground cover with the help of service crops, also known as cover crops, that allow
