Weed management in Conservation Agriculture systems: farmers’ testimonies

Professor Gottlieb Basch · Dr Søren Ilsøe · Dr Miguel Barnuevo-Rocko · Dr Anderson Schmitz · Mr Marcelo Zanella · Dr Benjamin Dias Osorio Filho · Dr Luiz Antônio Pradella · Dr Valmor dos Santos · Dr Corey Loessin · Dr Marie L. C. Bartz

Jul 2025 · Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing

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In this concluding chapter, several testimonies of farmers about their experiences regarding weed management after the shift to CA are presented to emphasize the importance of practitioners' views when profound changes in farming methods are needed. The testimonies comprise different agroecologies and farming systems: two in Europe, one in the Atlantic Central region (Denmark) and the other in the Mediterranean South (Spain), both working in annual cropping systems; two in Brazil, one in the Cerrado biome of the Bahia state in the Northeast, dedicated to annual broadacre crops, and the other in the South, in the Santa Catarina state, with a temperate but hot summer climate, specialized in horticultural crops. Finally, a farmer from the cold semi-arid Canadian prairies, cropping cereals, oilseed rape, and pulses.

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Dr Gottlieb Basch is a Full Professor in the Department of Plant Science at the University of Évora, Portugal. He is President of the European Conservation Agriculture Federation and has contributed to a number of EIP AGRI Focus Groups, EU Horizon and other research projects on more sustainable methods of crop cultivation.

Marco Zanella is currently a technical agent for higher education at the Agricultural Research and Rural Extension Company of Santa Catarina. He has worked as a rural extensionist since 2007. He has experience in the area of Agronomy, working on sustainable rural development and plant and soil management techniques.

Dr Marie Bartz is a Researcher in the Centre of Functional Ecology at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Federal Technological University of Paraná, Brazil. She has published widely on earthworms and other aspects of soil biodiversity.

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