In short weeds are plants growing where it is not wanted, and it is desired that we should go for weeding to increase the economic yield of different crops.
It has also been observed that most of the weeds are edible to animals. Is it required to go for weeding in forage crops as both the crop and weeds are edible to the animals? The weeds in this case may act as bio-mulch, soil erosion barrier, supply plant nutrients after decay in soil and so on.
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I think you can leave if: 1) weeds are not poisonous to animals; 2) weeds do not significantly reduce yields. This is how it works in organic farming.
It is important to weed the forage crops because it was not your target crop for the purpose you plant for, your interest is to harvest maximum from the established forage and feed the type of animal and get it write, for example if you are interested in increasing protein in your feed, then carry out the procedure of obtaining maximum of what you wanted from the established forage crop.
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