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PLANT PRODUCTION
COLLECTION
OF WEEDS
MODULE CODE: SPP1002 LECTURER: CATHERIN ECKERT
Many weeds grow among crop and in garden. They germinate readily and grow flower and fruit
quickly to produce copious seeds. They mainly compete for water, nutrients and space.
Weeds can become established and persist in grazed pasture. Some, such as Scrub weeds, thistles and
dock reduce the pasture available to stock (Popay, 2008). Other weeds have negative effects on
livestock. They can harm livestock by poisoning (seneccio jacobaea), damaging skin and eye
(Critesion spp), causing infections such as scabby mouth in sheep (Cirsium arvense), and tainting
dairy produce (coronopus didymus) (Popay, 2008)
Schonbeck states, that in term of plant becoming weeds,” Weeds are Nature’s way of covering soil
that has become exposed by fire, flood, landslide, clear-cutting, clean tillage, or other disturbance.” A
weed problem becomes present when 3 conditions are occur: a large weed seed bank in the soil, a
susceptible crop, a favourable environment for weed. (Schonbeck, 2013)
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