Haulm killing

September 23, 2021 | Articles

Haulm killing with a hybrid electric method requires less power

Hybrid electric crop protection. This is how Australian crop protection chemical company Nufarm and the German start-up CROP.ZONE describe their new invention, NuCrop for chemical-free weed control and haulm killing in potatoes. It combines the technique of electrocution with a special fluid for better current conduction, which requires less (motor) power and achieves more capacity…

October 15, 2020 | Blogs

More precision in potato production; potato haulm killing

Precision agriculture is a farming management concept based on observing, measuring and responding to inter and intra-field variability in crops. In this series I look at precision agriculture applications in potato crops from a Dutch perspective (see Potato Research paper in references). Let us have a look at variable rate application of potato haulm killing…