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Forward; Simon Blackmore Preface; Stephen L. Young Acknowledgements Introduction: Scope of the Problem - Rising Costs and Demand for Environmental Safety for Weed Control; Stephen L. Young, Francis J. Pierce, and Pete Nowak Part I Agricultural Production Systems Current State of Organic and Conventional Cropping Systems; Alec F. McErlich and Rick A. Boydston Part II Principles and Merging of Engineering and Weed Science Engineering Advancements; John K. Schueller Plant Morphology and the Critical Period of Weed Control; J. Anita Dille The Biological Engineer: Sensing the Difference between Crops and Weeds; David C. Slaughter Part III Primary Weed Control Tools for Automation Precision Planting and Crop Thinning; Scott A. Shearer and Santosh K. Pitla Automated Mechanical Weeding; M. Taufik Ahmad, Lie Tang, and Brian L. Steward Targeted and Micro-Dose Chemical Applications; Stephen L. Young and D. Ken Giles Part IV Field Applications Field Applications of Automated Weed Control: Western Hemisphere; Steven A. Fennimore, Bradley D. Hanson, Lynn M. Sosnoskie, Jayesh B. Samtani, Avishek Datta, Stevan Z. Knezevic, and Mark C. Siemens Field Applications of Automated Weed Control: Northwest Europe; Jan Willem Hofstee and Ard T. Nieuwenhuizen Field Applications of Automated Weed Control: Asia; Hiroshi Okamoto, Yumiko Suzuki, and Noboru Noguchi Part V Economies for Automated Weed Control Economics of Technology for Precision Weed Control in Conventional and Organic Systems; Florian Diekmann and Marvin T. Batte Future Adoption of Automation in Weed Control; Josse De Baerdemaeker Automation for Weed Control in Least Developing Countries (LDCs); Renan Aguero, Noel M. Estwick, and Edgar GutierrezPart VI Future Directions Future Directions for Automated Weed Management in Precision Agriculture; Stephen L. Young, George E. Meyer, Wayne Woldt Appendix Glossary Index