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Assessment of weed and crop fitness in cover crop residues for integrated weed management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Martin M. Williams II ,
David A. Mortensen  and
John W. Doran
David A. Mortensen
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0915
John W. Doran
Affiliation:
U.S. Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service, Lincoln, NE 68583-0915
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Abstract

Cover crop residues are not widely used for weed control because, as a stand-alone tactic, they do not effectively suppress all weeds and their duration of weed control is too short. Field experiments were conducted in 1995 and 1996, under both irrigated and rainfed conditions, to quantify Amaranthus spp., Setaria spp., and soybean emergence and growth in residues of fall-planted, spring-killed barley, rye, triticale, wheat, and hairy vetch. For both weed species, seedling emergence was reduced 3 wk after soybean planting by rye and wheat residues (≥ 2, 170 kg ha−1) in 1996. In 1996, Amaranthus spp. canopy volume was reduced 38 to 71% by residues 3 wk after planting. Likewise, Setaria spp. canopy biomass was reduced 37 to 97% in residues 5 wk after planting over both years. The response comparison index was used to identify frequency by which weed growth was placed at a disadvantage relative to soybean growth. Amaranthus spp. and Setaria spp. growth suppressions 3 to 5 wk after planting indicate potential times for intervention with other integrated weed management tactics such as reduced postemergence herbicide rates and interrow cultivation.

Keywords

Amaranthus spp. AMASSSetaria spp. SETSSsoybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr. ‘Dunbar.'Barleyhairy vetchryetriticalewheatgerminationgrowthrelative fitnessnonchemical weed controlno-tillagetime of interventionAMASSSETSS
Type
Weed Management
Information
Weed Science , Volume 46 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 595 - 603
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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