The weed management industry is heating up; flames, lasers and electrocution are just a few heat-based methods that farmers have explored for weed control. Now add mid-infrared radiation as another emerging thermal weed control tactic that could eventually give farmers more firepower over the weeds in their fields.
Mid-IR can bake weeds instantly
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Mid-infrared heat lamp used to bake weeds in the study.
Weed mortality percentages displayed at the three-, six-, and nine-leaf stages after exposure to different mid-infrared energy levels.
How three-leaf ivyleaf morningglory (A), six-leaf barnyardgrass (B), and six-leaf Palmer amaranth plants reacted to increasing levels of mid-infrared radiation is shown.
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