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  • Weed blasting offers new control method for organic farmers

    Jan 21, 2016 6:00 am by Lauren QuinnResearch
    image of the hand-held weed blasting unit used in the study

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    • image of the hand-held weed blasting unit used in the study

    Weed blasting can reduce weed biomass in organic tomato and pepper crops by up to 97 percent, while maintaining crop yields similar to hand-weeded control plots.