This factsheet describes strategies for preventing and controlling weeds in organically managed peach orchards. It emphasizes early prevention as well as post-planting management practices including mulching, shallow cultivation, flaming, cover crops, mowing, grazing animals, and organically acceptable herbicides.

Join Brad Heins from the University of Minnesota as he explores breeding and genetic strategies for organic dairies, covering breed evaluations, crossbreeding research, and economic performance insights to enhance your farm's success.

This factsheet explains how weeds affect organic kiwifruit vineyards and why controlling them is important to prevent competition for water and nutrients and to reduce habitat for pests and rodents. It describes preventive and post-planting management strategies—including cultivation, soil solarization, mulching, mowing, cover crops, flaming, organically approved herbicides, and the use of grazing animals.

Join Dr. Cindy Daley in this insightful webinar on soil remediation's impact on forage quality and milk production, showcasing the economic benefits of investing in soil health for organic dairy systems. Recorded June 27, 2013.

This factsheet describes methods for managing weeds in organic vegetable production systems, including carrots, where effective control relies on integrating cultural practices, cultivation, and hand labor. It explains strategies used before and after planting—such as pre-germinating and destroying weed seedlings, flaming, cover crops, cultivation, and hand hoeing—to reduce weed pressure and give crops a competitive advantage.

Join our webinar to explore the financial benefits of using high-energy grasses and birdsfoot trefoil in organic dairy heifer operations, comparing it to conventional methods. Understand the economic implications for sustainable farming practices.

This factsheet explains how weeds affect organic celery production and emphasizes integrated management using cultural practices, cultivation, and manual labor. It describes preventive strategies before planting—such as crop rotation, cover crops, pre-germination and removal of weeds, and sanitation—as well as in-season practices like mechanical cultivation and hand hoeing to reduce weed competition and seed banks.

Join Jacob Hadfield from the University of Utah Extension as he shares valuable insights in this informative webinar held on February 20, 2020, designed specifically for farmers and researchers to enhance agricultural practices.

This factsheet explains methods for controlling weeds in organic pepper production using an integrated approach that relies on cultural practices, cultivation, and hand labor. It describes strategies used before and after planting—such as crop rotation, sanitation, stale seedbeds, cover crops, mulches, flaming, shallow cultivation, irrigation management, and hand weeding.

This resource offers valuable insights and tools for farmers and researchers to enhance agricultural practices, improve crop yields, and foster sustainable farming methods, ultimately contributing to food security and environmental stewardship.

This factsheet describes organic weed control strategies for cucurbit crops, emphasizing the need to combine multiple practices to maintain acceptable weed control and crop yields. It outlines monitoring and record-keeping along with management methods such as irrigation practices like pre-germination, mechanical cultivation, flaming, mulches, and limited use of organically approved contact herbicides.

Join Dr. Blair Waldron from USDA-ARS as he shares insights from the January 9, 2020 webinar focused on forage and range research, providing valuable information for farmers and researchers in the field.