Pre-plant incorporation of trifluralin at 1500 g ha" alone, trifluralin 1000 g ha-' fb hand hoeing at 20 DAS, pendimethalin at 1000 g ha-' fb hand hoeing at 20 DAS and two hoeings (20 and 40 DAS) provided better control of weeds upto 90 DAS compared to other weed control treatments. Consequently, these being at par with each other produced pods/ plant and grain yield of soybean statistically equivalent to that of weed-free throughout the crop season.