Chapter 29. E. Ford Eastin. 1981. Weed management systems for U. S. rice. Pages 539-547. In: David Pimentel (editor). 1981. CRC Handbook of Pest Management in Agriculture. Volume 3, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 656 pages.

Keywords: rice field weeds, rice culture in the USA, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, damage from weeds that compete for light, nutrients, space, and water, cultural control by crop

rotation, land levelling and levee construction, seedbed preparation, seeding, fertilizer, water management, cultivation, biological control, herbicides,

Pesticides: alachlor, atrazine, bentazon, bifenox, butachlor, carbaryl, carbofuran, MCPA, molinate, oxadiazon, parathion, propanil, propazine, silvex, thiobencarb, trifluralin, 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T

Weeds: barnyard grass Echinochloa crusgalli, signal grass Brchiaria platyphylla, mexicanweed Caperonia castanaefolia, Fimbristylis spp., hemp sesbania Sesbania exaltata, dayflower Commelina communis, sprangletop Leptochloa uninervia, red rice Oryza sativa,