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Low-Rate Split-Applied Herbicide Treatments for Wild Oat (Avena fatua) Control in Wheat (Triticum aestivum)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Bradford K. Ramsdale*
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105
Calvin G. Messersmith
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract

Field experiments were conducted in 1999 and 2000 to evaluate reduced-rate split-applied treatments of imazamethabenz and ICIA 0604 for wild oat control in hard red spring wheat. Single herbicide treatments were applied at standard timing to wild oat at the two- to four-leaf stage. The first split-applied treatments were made when most of the wild oat had emerged but prior to the two-leaf stage. The second split-applied treatments were made after the surviving wild oat had visibly recovered and prior to the two-leaf stage of late-emerging wild oat. Split applications of imazamethabenz or ICIA 0604 allowed the herbicide rate to be reduced by half while maintaining or improving wild oat control. Both imazamethabenz and ICIA 0604 were most effective with methylated vegetable oil adjuvants. Wheat yield and net returns were greatest for half-rate split applications of imazamethabenz and ICIA 0604 in both years, likely because of less early-season wild oat competition and reduced wheat injury caused by ICIA 0604.

Type
Research
Copyright
Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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