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Cultivation Techniques in Combination with Chemical Weed Control in Cotton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

J. T. Holstun Jr.
J. T. Holstun Jr.*
Affiliation:
Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Stoneville, Mississippi
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Abstract

Unshielded cultivation (during which soil is purposely moved into the drill row) and shielded cultivation (soil movement into drill row minimized) were compared in field plots of cotton [Gossypium hirsutum L. (var. DBES 8274)] which received no herbicide, a banded preemergence herbicide, one to three banded postemergence herbicide applications, or a combination of the banded pre- and postemergence herbicides. All plots were hoed and cultivated as needed to maintain reasonably good control of weeds. The study was a 3-year experiment replicated six times.

Unshielded cultivation was superior or equal to shielded cultivation as a weed control measure supplementary to hoeing or hoeing and herbicides as evaluated by effects on hoe-labor requirements, cotton yields, and weed infestations at harvest time. Replacing one or more postemergence herbicide applications with unshielded cultivation resulted in reduced control of weeds. Late season initiation of unshielded cultivation in plots previously shield cultivated had no detrimental effect on yield.

Significant increases in yield of cotton were obtained in plots treated with a preemergence herbicide as compared with plots receiving only hoeing and cultivation for weed control. Postemergence herbicide treatments (applied as a directed spray) did not result in significantly higher yields as compared with plots receiving hoeing and cultivation only. As measured by 3-year averages preemergence or postemergence treatments provided about 50 per cent control of weeds; combined they provided about 75 per cent control.

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Research Article
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Weeds , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , July 1963 , pp. 190 - 194
Copyright
Copyright © 1963 Weed Science Society of America 

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