#$%^&*AU2013203415B220170413.pdf#####ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE To provide a method which shows excellent effects in controlling pests in a field of soybean, corn or cotton. 5 A method for controlling weeds in a field of soybean, corn orcotton, whereinthe fieldof soybean, cornorcottonis treated with at least one PPO-inhibiting compound selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, fomesafen-sodium, and the compound of the formula 10 (I): rF >; 0 H3C N N O S N N O CH 3 before, at orafter seedingwitha seed of soybean, corn or cotton treated with one or more nematicides.