Economic Threshold Weed Control Farming: Smart Decision Guide
Nov 15, 2025 · The foundation of economic threshold weed control farming rests on three critical factors: weed density per square foot, expected yield loss percentage, and control cost versus crop value.
Economic Thresholds and the Case for Longer Term Approaches to ...
Jan 20, 2017 · There are some theoretical concerns with applying a static approach such as the economic threshold to weed management decision making. An improvement is to adopt a population …
An effective decision model should take economics as well as biological factors into account, viz. nature of weed populations existing in the field, expected crop yield loss due to weed ...
(PDF) Economic threshold concept for weed management in crops ...
Dec 26, 2020 · Economic threshold (ET) determines the weed density at which control measures become economically justified. ET is primarily a binary decision-making tool guiding whether to …
Thresholds - IPM Guidelines For Grains
Economic thresholds help to rationalise the use of pesticides and are one of the keys to profitable pest management. The development of economic thresholds requires knowledge of pests, their damage, …
Integrating Biodiversity Benefits of Weeds into the Economic Threshold ...
May 24, 2025 · The economic threshold indicates a weed density that will generate the same expenses with or without weed control. Given that both types of costs can be ex-ante estimated, comparing …
Economic thresholds and response to uncertainty in weed control
Jan 1, 1987 · The influence of uncertainty on economic thresholds/critical density models in weed control is examined. Two principal sources of uncertainty, potential weed density and the form of the …