With the five-year IWMPRAISE (Integrated Weed Management: PRActical Implementation and Solutions for Europe) project due to finish this autumn, the 39 partners have produced the 2022 and final edition of its guide to the project’s Experimental Trials in Europe.
The 250-page guide covers a broad range of crops and cropping conditions across the project’s eight countries: Denmark, France, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
In particular, the project based its experimentation based on four scenarios: annually drilled crops in narrow rows (for example, oilseed rape), annually drilled crops in wide rows (for example maize, sunflowers and field vegetables), perennial herbaceous crops (for example, grassland) and perennial woody crops (for example, olives).
The partners in each country (including universities and research institutes, SMEs and industrial partners, and advisory services and end-user organisations) then addressed the pressing weed management concerns affecting farmers and producers in their locations.
For example, weed control in olive groves was examined at sites in northern and southern Spain, the biocontrol of Rumex obtusifolius L. (broad-leaved dock) was addressed in Slovenia and Switzerland, and IWM for vineyards received attention in Italy and the UK. Similarly, weeds in maize were explored in Italy, Slovenia and the Netherlands, and oilseed rape was included in trials in Denmark and France.
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