{"id":1049,"date":"2017-12-11T15:53:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T14:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2017-12-18T14:51:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:51:53","slug":"cattle-grazing-to-control-weeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2017\/12\/11\/cattle-grazing-to-control-weeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattle grazing to control weeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1051\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1051 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/12\/Tohiran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Tohiran et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Conventional oil palm agriculture relies heavily on chemical herbicides to control weeds in plantations. The overuse of chemical herbicides has adverse impacts on the environment and biodiversity. Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-017-0471-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tohiran et al.<\/a> show for the first time that targeted cattle grazing can control weeds and improve avian biodiversity. The application of targeted grazing as a biological control method for weeds is in line with the expectations of greater sustainability sought by palm oil consumers and certification bodies.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-017-0471-5'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional oil palm agriculture relies heavily on chemical herbicides to control weeds in plantations. The overuse of chemical herbicides has adverse impacts on the environment and biodiversity. Scientists Tohiran et al. show for the first time that targeted cattle grazing can control weeds and improve avian biodiversity. The application of targeted grazing as a biological &#8230; <a title=\"Cattle grazing to control weeds\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2017\/12\/11\/cattle-grazing-to-control-weeds\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cattle grazing to control weeds\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crop-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}