Weed Management
Midwest Vegetable Production Guide (ID-56)
Weed Management Strategies
(pdf) (includes table of rotation restrictions for corn and soybean herbicides)
Herbicide Effectiveness Guide (pdf)
Preharvest Intervals and Restricted Entry Intervals for Herbicides (pdf)
Common Names of Registered Herbicides (pdf)
(Bull. 888-00) (The Ohio State Univ.) (html)
Vegetable Farmers and their Weed Control Machines (Univs. of Vermont and Mass.)
This video shows farmers talking about cultivation and flaming equipment they use in vegetable production and shows the equipment in action. Implements to remove weeds from the edge of plastic are shown. The video can be viewed on-line with a fast internet connection, or can be ordered in tape format.
Herbicide Application
Herbicide Information
Herbicide
Mode-of-Action Summary (WS-2
3-W)
(html) (pdf)
Illinois Agricultural Pest Management Handbook (Univ. of Illinois)
Toxicity of Herbicides (pdf)
Factors Affecting Herbicide Persistence and Testing for Residues in Soil (pdf)
Weed Resistance to Herbicides (pdf)
How Herbicides Work (Univ. of Illi
nois) (pdf)
Weed Identification
Weed Identification (University of Illinois) (Web site)
Key to 172 broadleaf and grass weeds; includes photos.
Common Weed Seedlings of Michigan (E-1363) (Michigan State Univ.) (html)
Dichotomous key to seedling broadleaf and grass weeds with photos of seedlings, important features for identification, and often a plant at a later stage of vegetative growth or in bloom.
Weed Identification Guide (Virginia Tech.) (Web site)
Photos and descriptions of weeds at the seedling, vegetative and flowering stages; key to grass weeds.
Missouri Weeds (Univ. of Missouri) (Web site)
Photos of weeds in various growth stages with descriptions of key characters.
Pigweed Identification Guide (Kansas State Un
iv.) (pdf)
Weeds of the North Central States (NCR Res. Pub. 281 and UIUC Bull. 772) (html)
Botanical descriptions and line drawings of weeds in the North Central Region. This is an on-line version of the print publication.
Invasive and Exotic Weeds (USDA and Univ. of Georgia)Photos of weeds.
N.J. Agricultural Weed Gallery (Rutgers) (Web site)
Photos of weeds, typically an established plant or flower in the field; indexed by common and Latin name; includes an index of thumbnail images.
Additional Resources