Weed management with Triafamone herbicide in transplanted rice ecosystem

Sustainable Weed Management for Unpuddled Transplanted Rice

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com non-rice crops in a rotation such as wheat. Therefore, puddling for rice transplanting should be avoided as it has adverse effects on the succeeding upland crops. Unpuddled transplanting is an alternative method for rice establishment which can be adopted to overcome these problems and also to reduce cost of rice production. For this system, the lan...

Weed Management: Implications of Herbicide Resistant Crops

Optimizing herbicide use in an Integrated Weed Management (IWM) context

PEST MANAGEMENT: WEEDS Weed Management Needs in Arkansas Rice

Certified Crop Advisors of Arkansas and members of the Arkansas Crop Consultants Association were surveyed in fall 2006 through direct mail to assess current weed management practices and needs in rice from both a research and educational perspective. Consultants reported scouting 564,000 of the possible 1,400,000 acres (40%) of rice grown in Arkansas. Preemergence herbicides most often recomme...

Integrated Weed Management: Soybean Seeding Rate and Residual Herbicide

Increased soybean seed cost in recent years has generated interest in reducing seeding rates to maintain consistent economic returns. However, low seeding rates result in reduced established plant stands with slower canopy development, and canopy development is touted as an important element of integrated weed management (IWM). IWM practices have become even more important to slow the developme...