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Flame Cultivation for Corn and Soybeans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Ellery L. Knake ,
Fred W. Slife  and
Robert D. Seif
Ellery L. Knake
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana
Fred W. Slife
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana
Robert D. Seif
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana
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Abstract

During a 2-year study corn exhibited relatively good tolerance to flaming at a speed of 4 mph. Soybeans were more susceptible to injury by flaming at early growth stages than was corn. For weed control conventional cultivation and preemergence herbicides were superior to flaming. Damage to crop or weeds was influenced by morphology of the plant, size of plant, adjustment of equipment, number of flamings, and speed or length of exposure.

This study suggests that flame cultivation would not be very competitive in areas where preemergence herbicides and conventional cultivation give satisfactory control of weeds. Although cost of gas would be about equal to cost of herbicide, cost of flame cultivation equipment is about five times greater, and flame cultivation would require 2 to 4 more trips over the field. Flame cultivation may have more potential in the drier areas where preemergence herbicides have been less effective.

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Research Article
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Weeds , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1965 , pp. 52 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © 1965 Weed Science Society of America 

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