Evaluation of New Harvesting Methods to Reduce Weeds on Arable Fields and Collect a New Feedstock

During harvesting, grain, straw, and chaff with weed seeds are separated. The chaff is returned to the fields, resulting in weed problems in the subsequent crops. We estimated the fraction of weed seeds a combine harvester could potentially harvest and used various methods to collect the chaff and t...

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Main Authors: Christoph Glasner, Christopher Vieregge, Josef Robert, Johanna Fenselau, Zahra Bitarafan, Christian Andreasen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/9/1688