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Kōrero: Organic farming

Tine-weeding

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Tine-weeding

In organic arable crops during their growing season, weeds are mostly controlled mechanically. This Canterbury farmer is pulling a tine-weeder (a type of flexible harrow) across a field of young peas to reduce the number of emerging weeds.

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Seager Mason, Organic farming – Types of produce, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/16952/tine-weeding (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Seager Mason, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.