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Evaluating an Automated Irrigation Control System for Site-Specific Herbigation1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Charlotte V. Eberlein ,
Bradley A. King  and
Mary J. Guttieri
Charlotte V. Eberlein*
Affiliation:
District III Cooperative Extension System, University of Idaho, Twin Falls Research and Extension Center, Twin Falls, ID 83303
Bradley A. King
Affiliation:
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Aberdeen Research and Extension Center, Aberdeen, ID 83210
Mary J. Guttieri
Affiliation:
Department of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences, Aberdeen Research and Extension Center, Aberdeen, ID 83210
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: ceberl@uidaho.edu.
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Abstract

Site-specific herbigation using a linear-move irrigation system equipped with an automated irrigation control system was evaluated in a series of field trials conducted at the University of Idaho Aberdeen Research and Extension Center near Aberdeen, ID. In the first study, the experimental area was divided into site-specific management zones that were randomly assigned herbigation treatments of metolachlor at 0, 1.8, 2.7, or 3.6 kg ai/ha. In a second study, site-specific herbigation treatments of metribuzin at 0, 0.28, 0.42, or 0.56 kg ai/ha were applied. The tests covered a range in system flow rate from 29 to 90% of maximum design flow. Average metolachlor rates applied were within 1, 2, and 4% of the target 1.8, 2.7, and 3.6 kg/ha rates, respectively, and average metribuzin rates were on target at the 0.28 kg/ha rate and within 5 and 2% of the 0.42 and 0.56 kg/ha target rates, respectively. In a third study, potato (Solanum tuberosum) fields were divided into management zones, and low, medium, or high populations of Indian mustard (Brassica juncea) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica) were seeded in each zone. Different rates of a metolachlor plus metribuzin mixture were herbigated in each zone—higher rates in zones with high populations and lower rates in zones with low populations. Weed control was excellent in all zones. Results suggest good potential for site-specific herbigation when linear-move or center-pivot irrigation systems are equipped with the automated irrigation control system.

Keywords

Metolachlor, 2-chloro-N-(2-ethyl-6-methylphenyl)-N-(2-methoxy-1-methylethyl) acetamidemetribuzin, 4-amino-6-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-3-(methylthio)-1,2,4-triazin-5-(4H)-oneIndian mustard, Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. et Coss. # BRSJU ‘Common Brown’foxtail millet, Setaria italica (L.) Beauv. # SETITpotato, Solanum tuberosum L. ‘Russet Burbank’ # SOLTUChemigationherbicide applicationprecision agriculturevariable-rate application technologyChenopodium albumAmaranthus retroflexusAMARECHEALCV, coefficient of variationDF, dry flowableEC, emulsifiable concentrate
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Research
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 2000 , pp. 182 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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Footnotes

1 University of Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station paper 99710

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