page_title: Weed control
section_title: "Organic" approaches
hierarchical_section_title: Weed control / Methods / Chemical methods / "Organic" approaches
caption_attribution_description: When cotton is 3 or 4 weeks old, the rows of closely spaced plants are chopped out with hoes, leaving them divided into small clumps separated by hoe-width spaces. This work must be done within a certain period of time and generally every member of the family helps out. In this scene, an owner does one row while his three children do another. On May 28 - June 1, 1941 in Harmony Comunity, Putnam County, GA.
context_page_description: Weed control is the botanical component of pest control, which attempts to stop weeds, especially noxious weeds, from competing with desired flora and fauna including domesticated plants and livestock, and in natural settings preventing non native species competing with native species.
  Weed control is important in agriculture. Methods include hand cultivation with hoes, powered cultivation with cultivators, smothering with mulch, lethal wilting with high heat, burning, and chemical control with herbicides.
context_section_description: Organic weed control involves anything other than applying manufactured chemicals. Typically a combination of methods are used to achieve satisfactory control.
  Sulfur in some circumstances is accepted within British Soil Association standards.
caption: Weed control, circa 1930-40s
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