Cereal rye seeding rate does not affect magnitude of weed suppression when planting green within Mid-Atlantic United States
Date
2022-12-12
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Weed Technology
Abstract
In the Mid-Atlantic United States, there is increasing interest in delaying cereal rye termination until after soybean planting (i.e., planting green). Improved understanding of cereal rye seeding rate effects is needed to balance weed and agronomic management goals. We investigated the effects of cereal rye seeding rates on weed control and crop performance when planting green in complementary experiments in two Mid-Atlantic regions. The Pennsylvania experiment was replicated at three site-years and the Delaware experiment at two site-years. In both experiments, population-level weed responses were evaluated across four cereal rye seeding rates: 0, 51, 101, and 135 kg ha−1. The Delaware experiment also implemented a nitrogen treatment factor (0 and 34 kg N ha−1; spring applied). Both experiments showed that integrating cereal rye in the fall significantly improved winter- and summer-annual weed suppression compared with the fallow control, but no differences in total cereal rye biomass production or weed suppression were found among alternative cereal rye seeding rates (51 to 135 kg ha−1). Soybean yield did not differ among treatments in any of the studies. These results show there is no reason to increase cereal rye seeding rates for weed suppression services or to decrease seeding rates for agronomic reasons (i.e., soybean population and yield) when employing planting-green tactics in no-till soybean production within the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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This article was originally published in Weed Technology. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/wet.2022.91
Keywords
Cereal rye, Secale cereale L., soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr., cover crop, horseweed, integrated weed management, planting green, summer annual weeds, winter annual weeds
Citation
Ficks, Teala S., Mark J. VanGessel, and John M. Wallace. “Cereal Rye Seeding Rate Does Not Affect Magnitude of Weed Suppression When Planting Green within Mid-Atlantic United States.” Weed Technology, 2022, 1–6. doi:10.1017/wet.2022.91.