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The Weed Control Demonstration Program in Michigan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

S. K. Ries
S. K. Ries*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Hort., Michigan State University, East Lansing
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Most farmers are not taking full advantage of the information available on herbicides and weed control methods. With few exceptions there is too long a delay between the development of a new weed control practice and its use on the average farm. This lag may be attributed to the following factors:

1. Failure of public and commercial extension workers to inform individual farmers.

2. Unsatisfactory experiences by farmers due to improper use of herbicides.

3. Grower unwillingness to try something new without visual proof.

4. General complexity of herbicide usage.

5. Unwillingness of a large number of farmers to be the first to accept a new practice.

Type
Research Article
Information
Weeds , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 1956 , pp. 357 - 362
Copyright
Copyright © 1956 Weed Science Society of America 

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2 Members of the Extension Committee were as follows: R. F. Carlson, Department of Horticulture; B. R. Churchill, Department of Farm Crops; B. H. Grigsby, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology; L. V. Nelson, Department of Farm Crops; R. G. White, Department of Agricultural Engineering; and S. K. Ries, Department of Horticulture, Chairman.Google Scholar