Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-nr4z6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-04T04:40:32.424Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Effects of Crop Residue Management and Tillage on Weed Control and Sugarcane Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Wilson E. Judice ,
James L. Griffin ,
Luke M. Etheredge Jr.  and
Curtis A. Jones
Wilson E. Judice
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy and Environmental Management, LSU AgCenter, 104 Sturgis Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
James L. Griffin*
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy and Environmental Management, LSU AgCenter, 104 Sturgis Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Luke M. Etheredge Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy and Environmental Management, LSU AgCenter, 104 Sturgis Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Curtis A. Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy and Environmental Management, LSU AgCenter, 104 Sturgis Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: jgriffin@agcenter.lsu.edu
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Research was conducted to evaluate the residual effect of burning and mechanical removal of sugarcane crop residue on weed control and sugarcane growth and yield. In one study, crop residue was removed in December or January within 3 wk after sugarcane harvest. Mechanical removal of residue from the row top and placement in the row middle using a Sunco Trash Tiger® was compared with burning and a no removal control. Superimposed on each residue removal treatment was tillage of row sides and middles in March and in May and a no-tillage program. Tillage efficiency in March when sugarcane was emerging from the winter dormant period was not negatively affected when residue was removed mechanically. Crop residue on the soil surface did not completely suppress winter weed emergence and growth. Based on sugarcane and sugar yield averaged across locations and tillage programs, mechanical removal of residue was as effective as burning. Sugar yield was reduced 7.9% when residue was not removed from the row top compared with burning or mechanical removal. In another study, crop residue of sugarcane harvested in early December was burned or removed mechanically from the row top 4 d after harvest and also mechanically in January, February, or March. Crop residue ground cover of 79% in March on the row top where residue was not removed provided some suppression of winter weeds. Sugarcane shoot population in April was reduced 16.1% when residue removal was delayed until March compared with December. Averaged across tillage and no-tillage treatments in March, sugarcane yield did not differ when residue was removed by burning in December compared with mechanical removal in December or January. Delaying mechanical removal of residue until February or March compared with residue removal in December decreased sugar yield an average of 13.1%.

Keywords

Sugarcane, Saccharum spp. hybrids ‘LCP 85-384’Burningcrop residuereduced tillagewinter weeds
Type
Research
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , September 2007 , pp. 606 - 611
Copyright
Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Literature Cited

Azooz, R. H., Lowery, B., and Daniel, T. C. 1995. Tillage and residue management influence on corn growth. Soil Tillage Res. 33:215–227.Google Scholar
Beyaert, R. P., Schott, J. W., and White, P. H. 2002. Tillage effect on corn (Zea mays L.) production in a coarse-textured soil in southern Ontario. Agron. J. 94:767–774.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Carmer, S. G., Nyquist, W. E., and Walker, W. M. 1989. Least significant differences for combined analyses of experiments with two- and three-factor treatment designs. Agron. J. 81:665–672.Google Scholar
Chen, J. C. P. and Chou, C. 1993. Cane Sugar Handbook. 12th ed. New York J. Wiley. 1090.Google Scholar
Crutchfield, D. A., Wicks, G. A., and Burnside, O. C. 1986. Effect of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) straw mulch level on weed control. Weed Sci. 34:110–114.Google Scholar
Curran, W. S., Hoffman, L. D., and Werner, E. L. 1994. The influence of a hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth.) cover crop on weed control and corn (Zea may L.) growth and yield. Weed Technol. 8:777–784.Google Scholar
Fisk, J. W., Hesterman, O. B., Shrestha, A., Kells, J. J., Harwood, R. R., Squire, J. M., and Sheaffer, C. C. 2001. Weed suppression by annual legume cover crops in no-till corn. Agron. J. 93:319–325.Google Scholar
Fortin, M. C. 1993. Soil temperature, soil water, and no-till corn development following in-row residue removal. Agron. J. 85:571–576.Google Scholar
Glanville, T. J., Titmarsh, G., Sallaway, M. M., and Mason, F. 1997. Soil erosion in caneland tillage systems. in. Proceedings of the 1997 Conference of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists. Cairns, Queensland, Australia. 254–262.Google Scholar
Hager, A. G., Wax, L. M., Bollero, G. A., and Stoller, E. W. 2003. Influence of diphenylether herbicide application rate and timing on common waterhemp (Amaranthus rudis) control in soybean (Glycine max). Weed Technol. 17:14–20.Google Scholar
Johnson, G. A., Defelice, M. S., and Helsel, Z. R. 1993. Cover crop management and weed control in corn (Zea mays). Weed Technol. 7:425–430.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Judice, W. E., Griffin, J. L., Jones, C. A., Etheredge, L. M. Jr., and Salassi, M. E. 2006. Weed control and economics using reduced tillage programs in sugarcane. Weed Technol. 20:319–325.Google Scholar
Kaspar, T. C. and Erbach, D. C. 1998. Improving stand establishment in no-till with residue-clearing planter attachments. Trans. ASAE 41:301–306.Google Scholar
Kaspar, T. C., Erbach, D. C., and Cruse, R. M. 1990. Corn response to seed-row residue removal. Soil Sci. Soc. of Am. J. 54:1112–1117.Google Scholar
Moldenhauer, W. C., Langdale, G. W., Frye, W., McCool, D. K., Papendick, R. I., Smika, D. E., and Fryrear, D. W. 1983. Conservation tillage for erosion control. J. Soil Water Conserv. 38:144–151.Google Scholar
Richard, E. P. Jr. 1999. Management of chopper harvester-generated green cane trash blankets: a new concern for Louisiana. Proc. Int. Soc. Sugarcane Technol. 23/2:52–62.Google Scholar
SAS Institute 2003. SAS User's Guide: Statistics. Version 9.1. SAS Institute. Cary, NC.Google Scholar
Saxton, A. M. 1998. A macro for converting mean separation output to letter groupings in Proc Mixed. in. Proceedings of the 23rd SAS Users Group International, Nashville, TN. 1243–1246.Google Scholar
Selim, H. M., Naquin, B. J., Bengston, R. L., Zhu, H., Griffin, J. L., and Zhou, L. 2004. Herbicide retention and runoff losses as affected by sugarcane mulch residue. Louis. Agric. Exp. Stn. Bull. 883. 43.Google Scholar
Stinner, B. R., Crossley, D. A. Jr., Odum, E. P., and Todd, R. L. 1984. Nutrient budgets and internal cycling of N, P, K, Ca, and Mg in conventional tillage, no-tillage, and old-field ecosystems in the Georgia piedmont. Ecology 65/2:354–369.Google Scholar
Swan, J. B., Higgs, R. L., Bailey, T. B., Wollwenhaupt, N. C., Paulson, W. H., and Peterson, A. E. 1994. Surface residue and in-row treatment effects on long-term no tillage continuous corn. Agron. J. 86:759–766.Google Scholar
Vander Vorst, P. B., Wicks, G. A., and Burnside, O. C. 1983. Weed control in a winter wheat-corn-ecofarming rotation. Agron. J. 75:507–511.Google Scholar
Vetsch, J. A. and Randall, G. W. 2000. Enhancing no-tillage systems for corn with starter fertilizers, row cleaners, and nitrogen placement method. Agron. J. 92:309–315.Google Scholar
Viator, R. P., Johnson, R. M., and Richard, E. P. Jr. 2005. Management of the post-harvest residue blanket. Sugar Bull. 83/5:11–12.Google Scholar
Vyn, T. J. and Raimbault, B. A. 1993. Long-term effect of five tillage systems on corn response and soil structure. Agron. J. 85:1074–1079.Google Scholar
Wicks, G. A., Nordquist, P. T., Hanson, G. E., and Schmidt, J. W. 1994. Influence of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars on weed control in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). Weed Sci. 42:27–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wolkowski, R. P. 2000. Row-placed fertilizer for maize grown with an in-row crop residue management system in southern Wisconsin. Soil Till. Res. 54:55–62.Google Scholar
Yenish, J. P., Worsham, A. D., and York, A. C. 1996. Cover crops for herbicide replacement in no-tillage corn (Zea mays L.). Weed Technol. 10:815–821.Google Scholar