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Keywords: preventative weed control, weed seed in crop seed, dispersal as seeds in farm equipment, dispersal on animals, fence rows, irrigation and drainage ditches, physical methods, manual means of control, machine tillage, mowing and cutting, flooding, heat, mulches, managerial practices, biological control