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Herbicide-Grazing Interactions in Cheat (Bromus secalinus)–Infested Winter Wheat (Triticum aestivum)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Jeffrey A. Koscelny
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK 74078
Thomas F. Peeper
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK 74078

Abstract

Field experiments were conducted to determine the interaction of grazing and herbicide treatments on cheat control and biomass, wheat biomass, wheat grain yield, and wheat yield components. Ethyl-metribuzin at 1120 g ai ha−1 and metribuzin at 420 g ai ha−1 reduced cheat biomass 91 to 99 and 97 to 98%, respectively. Grazing had no effect on herbicide efficacy. Grazing increased cheat biomass in the check by 24% at only one location but did not affect total wheat plus cheat biomass. With one exception, controlled cheat was replaced by wheat on a 1:1 biomass basis when herbicides caused no crop injury. All herbicide treatments increased grain yield, but grazing did not alter yield. At two locations, increased heads m−2 and spikelets/head accounted for most of the grain yield increases, but at one location seeds/spikelet and weight/seed were also increased. Harvest index was unaffected.

Type
Weed Control and Herbicide Technology
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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