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Site-Specific Weed Management in Corn (Zea mays)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Joyce Tredaway-Ducar ,
Gaylon D. Morgan ,
John B. Wilkerson ,
William E. Hart ,
Robert M. Hayes  and
Thomas C. Mueller
Joyce Tredaway-Ducar
Affiliation:
Berry College, Mount Berry, GA 30149
Gaylon D. Morgan*
Affiliation:
Department of Soil and Crop Science, Texas A&M University, P.O. Box 14, College Station, TX 77843
John B. Wilkerson
Affiliation:
Department of Biosystems Engineering & Environmental Science, University of Tennessee
William E. Hart
Affiliation:
Department of Biosystems Engineering & Environmental Science, University of Tennessee
Robert M. Hayes
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Sciences & Landscape Systems, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
Thomas C. Mueller
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Sciences & Landscape Systems, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: gmorgan@ag.tamu.edu
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Abstract

Site-specific weed management can increase crop production efficiency by minimizing herbicide input costs without compromising crop yields. A reduction in herbicide inputs resulting from site-specific weed management may also decrease the probability level of nonpoint pollution compared with conventional herbicide applications. A 4.5-ha field was selected to compare site-specific and conventional weed management techniques in 1997 and 1998 at Knoxville, TN. Variable rate applications (VRAs) of atrazine preemergence (PRE) followed by dicamba postemergence (POST) were investigated for the reduction of herbicide inputs and their resulting impact on weed control and corn yield. VRAs of atrazine were on the basis of weed density data collected in 1996. VRAs of dicamba were according to common cocklebur density evaluations within the field. Compared with conventional applications, atrazine usage was decreased by 43 and 32% in the site-specific application treatments in 1997 and 1998, respectively. VRAs of dicamba reduced herbicide inputs by greater than 45% for 1997 and 1998. Corn yields were similar for the conventional and site-specific treatments in both years. On the basis of these data, site-specific herbicide applications have the greatest potential and least risk for managing weeds when POST or PRE + POST variable rate herbicide applications are used.

Keywords

Atrazinedicambacommon cocklebur, Xanthium strumarium L. #3 XANSTcorn, Zea mays L. ‘Dekalb 689’Brachiaria platyphylla (Griseb.) Nashbroadleaf signalgrassgeographical information systemsglobal positioning systemsvariable rate applicationDGPS, differential global positioning systemGIS, geographic information systemOM, organic matterPOST, postemergencePRE, preemergenceVRA, variable rate application
Type
Research
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 711 - 717
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Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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