EWRS Working Group meeting 'Physical and Cultural Weed Control'
This event has been cancelled for the dates in June 2023 and postponed to May 2024
Wageningen, The Netherlands, 27th to 29th of May 2024
Workshop of the EWRS working group “Physical and cultural weed control”, Wageningen, Netherlands - POSTPONED to May 27th-29th, 2024
The WG meeting 'Physical and Cultural Weed Control' has been cancelled for the dates from 19th to 21st June. Due to the numerous working group meetings this year, the minimum number of participants could not be reached.
However, the workshop will be organized in next year at Wageningen: from 27th to 29th of May 2024.
Please contact the WG leader Judith Wirth judith.wirth@agroscope.admin.ch if you already paid the registration fee and if you want to be refunded. There is also the possibility that the EWRS keeps the money until the workshop takes place.
The event provides a platform to learn and exchange about recent developments, trends and ideas in the domain of physical and cultural weed control. Scientific talks will provide new insight in this area. Different discussion groups will allow participants to exchange ideas, pose questions, and share experiences and solutions on a number of important topics. We encourage you to make suggestions for discussion topics when you register. The most pertinent topics will be chosen for the workshop. On a one-day field trip, different effective weeding techniques employed by Dutch farmers will be presented.
The major topics are
a) Cultural weed control
- Cover crops
- Crop rotation
- Mulches, etc.
- Preventive and cultural methods, etc.
- Mechanical weeding
- Soil tillage
- Thermal weed control
- Solarization
- Electromagnetic weed control, etc.
Costs
| EWRS member | Non-member | |
| Regular | 160 | 220 |
| Student (MSc-PhD) | 130 | 160 |
The registration fee will cover lunches, coffee breaks and dinner on Monday evening as well as the excursion on Tuesday. The registration fee won’t cover accommodation and travel expenses.
Travel grants to students/early career scientists
- CV
- Motivation letter
- Estimate of the costs for travel and accommodation
- Statement from the home institute that they will cover the remainder of the expenses for travel and accommodation, should the travel grant be awarded
Registration, abstract submission and deadlines
Just to have an idea, here is a template in (word) or in pdf
Accomodation
We suggest to make a hotel reservation in Ede: Reehorst https://www.hotelreehorst.nl/. This will be a 5 min walk from the venue and trainstation Ede-Wageningen.