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Extreme Grain-Based Cropping Systems: When Herbicide-Free Weed Management Meets Conservation Tillage in Northern Climates

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The challenges associated with the adoption of conservation tillage and/or low-input cropping systems, whether organic or herbicide-free, across Canada are shaped by scale, environment, and local practices. A study in eastern Canada captured the challenges of introducing low-input cropping systems in mature (20þ yr) tillage treatments in a barley/red clover/corn/soybean rotation. Each mature tillage system came with its own weed problems, but this did not affect crops such as barley and red clover, which produced similar yields across high and low input systems. However, some form of primary tillage was needed to achieve adequate weed control and yield in organic (ORG) and herbicide-free (HF) systems. The HF and ORG systems with no-till actually failed to produce a corn crop but produced soybean yields that were half or less than that for other treatments. The successful combination of conservation tillage practices and low-input systems in eastern
Canada would thus appear to be crop-specific, being easier to achieve in competitive cereal crops. In western Canadian organic agriculture, tillage is practiced with low-disturbance chisel plows instead of inversion plows. However, green manure crops (summer cover crops) are often terminated with tandem discs. Both roller crimpers and mowing can successfully kill annual green manure crops such as field pea and rye, and usually result in reduced weed growth following termination. However, the lack of tillage can result in lower crop yields in wheat following green manure terminated by roller crimping compared to tillage. Challenges for no-till organic practices include perennial weed control and soil fertility. Overall, flexible crop production programs such as the former Manitoba Pesticide Free Production program and the ‘‘Agriculture raisonne´eTM’’ program in Que´bec are more likely to promote sustained environmental, economic, and social prosperity than rigid adherence to organic or no-till practices.

Nomenclature: Barley, Hordeum vulgare L.; corn, Zea mays L.; field pea, Pisum sativum L; red clover, Trifolium pratense L; rye, Secale cereale L; soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr.

Key words: Blade roller, flexible crop production system, low-input cropping system, organic no-till, pesticide-free production, sustainable agriculture.

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Judul Seri

Weed Technology

No. Panggil

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Penerbit

New York : Weed Science Society America., 2013

Deskripsi Fisik

Weed Technology 2013 27:204–211

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English

ISBN/ISSN

DOI: 10.1614/WT-D-12

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Tipe Media

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Edisi

27, January–March 2013

Subjek

PERTANIAN.
ILMU GULMA

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