if you keep soil covered you have much less weeds for a season or more.
Todays’ problem also is generations of people who bought into the thinking and ways of “farming” big fields. This “on demand” food addiction we live in, is what’s killing many people (obesity, diabetes, cancers etc) and the land (over worked so add lab made fertilizers etc)
Mass production is not normal in nature, it happens slowly, but people want to mess with the natural ways of how the world was designed to run, so we create our selves more problems and disease etc.
All the big farm tilling is the main cause of weeds in their fields. If they didnt till so often or deeply they wouldn’t keep stirring up weed seeds to germinate. Less weeds would deter some insect pests who like those weeds.
For crop loving insect problems they could easily use extra natural things like pheromone traps, repellents etc. hot pepper powder, blood or bone meal, essential oils.
mulch of some sort (leaves, seedless grass and weeds, plastic type weed fabric, cardboard) anything to cover the soil and you have much less weeds.
But these more natural ways don’t make big money for pesticide companies and big machine makers, genetic modifiers of seed etc etc etc
the modifiers have lessened the nutrients of crops, grow shorter/faster to harvest, and other things only to the detriment of the human body consuming them.
suggestion: grow your own or connect with a small scale natural grower and buy from them what’s in season, and thank God for His abundant blessings.
I have a great respect for Joel Salitan’s method of farming... it is actually a method of animal husbandry that does not disrupt the land.
I have a friend who farms and others who garden using permaculture techniques that are chemical free.