There will probably always be weeds and weed problems in agriculture but, when cultivation practices change, so do the problems. Some of the changes which have been observed are described and other possible risks are suggested. It does not appear that weeds will be a technical barrier to development of new techniques but there may be economic and managerial problems.
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G. W. Cussans (1975) studied this question.
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