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Efficacy and Economics of Cultivation for Weed Control in Potato (Solanum tuberosum)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Charlotte V. Eberlein ,
Paul E. Patterson ,
Mary J. Guttieri  and
Jeffrey C. Stark
Charlotte V. Eberlein
Affiliation:
Department of Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Aberdeen, ID 83210
Paul E. Patterson
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Idaho, Idaho Falls, ID 83402
Mary J. Guttieri
Affiliation:
Department of Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Aberdeen, ID 83210
Jeffrey C. Stark
Affiliation:
Department of Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Aberdeen, ID 83210
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Abstract

A 3-year study was conducted in irrigated potato to compare weed control efficacy and economics of hilling plus one or two cultivations with the standard treatment of hilling plus a preemergence application of pendimethalin plus metribuzin. Trials were conducted under both weedy and weed-free conditions. Common lambsquarters and redroot pigweed were present in weedy treatments each year; significant populations of hairy nightshade and green foxtail also were present one year. When weed populations were low or moderate (< 45 plants/m2), total weed biomass in the hilling plus one cultivation treatment was reduced 98 to 99% relative to the weedy control, and U.S. No. 1 tuber yields were equal to the standard treatment. However, when weed populations were high (145 plants/m2), hilling plus one cultivation and hilling plus two cultivations provided only 30% and 61% reduction in weed biomass, respectively, and U.S. No. 1 tuber yields were 35% and 13% less, respectively, than the standard treatment. The standard treatment provided 99% reduction in total weed biomass each year, and yields were equal to the weed-free, hill plus no cultivation control. Net return was $37 to $100/ha higher for the hilling plus one cultivation treatment compared to the standard treatment when weed populations were moderate or low, but was $808/ha less than the standard treatment when weed populations were high.

Keywords

Metribuzin, 4-amino-6-(1,1- dimethylethyl)-3-(methylthio)-1,2,4-triazin-5(4H)-onependimethalin, N-(1-ethylpropyl)-3,4-dimethyl-2,6-dinitrobenzenaminecommon lambsquarters, Chenopodium album L. # CHEALgreen foxtail, Setaria viridis (L.) Beauv. # SETVIhairy nightshade, Solanum sarrachoides L. Sendt. # SOLSAredroot pigweed, Amaranthus retroflexus L. # AMAREpotato, Solanum tuberosum L. ‘Russet Burbank.'MetribuzinpendimethalinAMARECHEALCAR, costs and returns estimatePNW, Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Washington, Oregon)
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Research
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 257 - 264
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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