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Alternative Weed Management Systems for the Production of Kidney Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Orvin C. Burnside
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron. Plant Genet., Univ. Minnesota, St. Paul
Norman H. Krause
Affiliation:
Irrigation Res. Cent., Staples, MN 56479
Melvin J. Wiens
Affiliation:
Irrigation Res. Cent., Staples, MN 56479
Michelle M. Johnson
Affiliation:
Irrigation Res. Cent., Staples, MN 56479
Eric A. Ristau
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron. Plant Genet, Univ. Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108

Abstract

Weed management experiments with kidney beans were conducted at one irrigated site in 1991 and at two irrigated sites near Staples, MN during 1992. Green foxtail was the most difficult weed to control at the three research sites which agrees with survey results from dry bean growers regarding their worst weed problems. Hairy nightshade increased rapidly when weed management methods were reduced. Dry bean seed yields were highest in cultivated check plots on the farmer's field and in conventional practices plots at the Irrigation Research Center. Net economic returns, averaged over 1991 and 1992, for producing kidney beans at the Irrigation Research Center were $899/ha using conventional practices, $791/ha with cover crop practices, $734/ha with cultivated checks, $690/ha with herbicides only, and $208/ha on weedy checks. Kidney beans are an economical crop for North Central growers, but adequate weed management technologies are necessary for profitable production.

Type
Research
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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