Tri-State Organic IP Video Program Session II
Organic Weed Management
March 15, 2007
Additional Resources
Organic Weed Management
Ten Steps Toward Organic Weed Control (Univ. of Vermont) http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/factsheets/orgweedconrtol.html
Weed Management in Organic Cropping Systems (Penn State) http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/freepubs/pdfs/uc187.pdf
Canadian Organic Growers Organic Field Crop Handbook - Weed Management http://eap.mcgill.ca/MagRack/COG/COGHandbook/COGHandbook_1_7.htm
Weed Management for Organic Crops (Pub. 7249) (Univ. of California) http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/pdf/7250.pdf
Organic Weed Management Web site (Cornell Univ.) http://www.css.cornell.edu/WeedEco/WeedDatabase/index2.html
The New Farm Weeds Page http://www.newfarm.org/depts/weeds/index.shtml
Integrated Weed Management
Cultural Practices in Vegetable Crop Weed Management Programs (Bull. 888-00) (The
Ohio State Univ.) http://ohioline.osu.edu/b888/index.html
Integrated Weed Management: “One Year’s Seeding…” (E-2931). (Michigan State
Univ.)
112-page book reviews what is known about weed biology and ecology and how that knowledge can be used in effective weed management systems. To order, visit http://www.emdc.msue.msu.edu
Cultivation and Implements
Cultivation Equipment for Weed Control: Pros, Cons and Sources (Univ. of Vermont) http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/factsheets/cultivators.html
Steel in the Field: A Farmer’s Guide to Weed Management Tools (Sustainable Ag
Network)
128-page handbook describing implements and how to use them. http://www.sare.org/publications/steel/steel.pdf http://www.sare.org/publications/steel/index.htm (for viewing on-line)
Videos
Vegetable Farmers and their Weed-Control Machines (Univs. of Vermont and Mass.) http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/Videos/weedvideo.htm
Weed ‘em and Reap (Oregon State University) http://oregonstate.edu/dept/hort/faculty/stone/WeedEmandReap/index.html
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Weed Identification
Weed Identification (University of Illinois) (Web site) http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/weedid/index.html
Key to 172 broadleaf and grass weeds; includes photos.
Common Weed Seedlings of Michigan (E-1363) (Michigan State Univ.) http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/iac/e1363/e1363.htm
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.
Common Weed Seedlings of the North Central States (NCR 607) http://fieldcrop.msu.edu/documents/Ncr607.pdf
Key and color photos for identification of weed seedlings. Similar to E-1363 from MSU, but in pdf format.
Weed Identification Guide (Virginia Tech.) http://www.ppws.vt.edu/weedindex.htm
Photos and descriptions of weeds at the seedling, vegetative and flowering stages; key to grass weeds.
Annual Broadleaf Weed Identification (NCR Pub. 90) (Univ. of Minn.) http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/cropsystems/DC1350.html
Annual Grass and Perennial Weed Identification (Univ. of Minn.) http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/cropsystems/DC1352.html
Weed Seedling Identification (Univ. of Minn.) http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/cropsystems/DC0776.html
Annual Grass and Perennial Weed Seedling Identification (Univ. of Minn.) http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/cropsystems/DC1351.html
Penn State Weed Fact Sheets (Cornell Univ.) Index of pdf files. http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu/factsheets/weeds/default.asp
Pigweed Identification Guide (Kansas State Univ.) http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/crpsl2/s80.pdf
Weeds of the North Central States (NCR Res. Pub. 281 and UIUC Bull. 772) http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/%7Evista/html_pubs/WEEDS/list.html
Botanical descriptions and line drawings of weeds in the North Central Region. This is an on-line version of the print publication.
N.J. Agricultural Weed Gallery (Rutgers) http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/weeds/default.asp
Photos of weeds, typically an established plant or flower in the field; indexed by common and Latin name; includes an index of thumbnail images.
Compiled by L. Maynard and V. Morrone. 3/5/2007.
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