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Let's Look at Weeds
195917 min 57 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Grant Crabtree
Production: Larry Gosnell
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of Agriculture.
During every growing season in Canada millions of acres of farmland and garden plots become a battlefield where weeds try to crowd out cultivated crops. This film is an ecological study of the relationship between weeds and crop plants, showing the life cycle of specific weeds, with reference to their susceptibility to cultural and chemical control. New developments in chemical weed killers are shown.
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Subject categories
- Plants > AgriculturePests and Pest Control
- Agriculture > Crops - Cultivation and HarvestingPests and Pest Control
Credits
- director
- Grant Crabtree
- photography
- Grant Crabtree
- producer
- Larry Gosnell
- editing
- Maureen Balfe
- sound editing
- Fred Anders