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Alec Ligeza
Trials Programme Manager at PGRO (Processors and Growers Research Organisation), specializing in crop protection efficacy trials and herbicide research.
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Jul 6, 2026
PGRO Pulse Crop Open Day 2026
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15:56Alec LigezaGUEST
So we kind of go from a situation when the site was practically looking like a green carpet to the situation when you look a few minutes, few seconds ago, the untreated plot looks of course still very weedy.
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16:11Alec LigezaGUEST
but definitely 10 times better than the other one and here we have a truss when there was no handweed so there is just a cultivation and tines and you can see that there's a little bit more weeds and even if it looks a little bit weedier if we look on our data the number of weeds is not that much different even if it visually looks worse it's mainly because of that that one which survives are bigger there's not that much the numbers of which is not much higher compared to that one which were done, we get hand weeding on the top of tines.
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17:01Alec LigezaGUEST
So it means that probably hand weeding is not the best way to kind of give you 20% of the effort, give you 80% of the result.
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18:17Alec LigezaGUEST
big to control so and later on we do the same for every of the four plots four reps and then we do the statistics so we get the information not only about the number of weeds but also about the species and what is the growth stage and because we do assessment after pre-m and after post-m we also know get the information how effective it is we also register the information about the phytotoxicity so if the crop suffer because use of chemicals how severe is that phototoxicity and also if we see some effects on weeds we also make a information that yeah that combination works on weeds and we add information also what type of effect is physical effect of that photo toxicity if this is a burning of bleaching or they are twisted because of the hormonal distortion and later we run statistics on it and we look for significant differences between the treatments and based on that we can take a conclusion And because we use the same set of treatments in the last, this is the fourth year, when we use the same set of treatments, we can kind of start thinking about long term, which is the best, what is the best combination.
