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Cropping system rotation in combination with harvest weed seed control for wild oat (Avena fatua) management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2025

Breanne D. Tidemann*
Affiliation:
Research Scientist, Retired Research Scientist, and Research Technicians, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lacombe Research and Development Centre, Lacombe, AB, T4L 1W1
K. Neil Harker
Affiliation:
Research Scientist, Retired Research Scientist, and Research Technicians, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lacombe Research and Development Centre, Lacombe, AB, T4L 1W1
Robert H. Gulden
Affiliation:
Professor, University of Manitoba, Department of Plant Science, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2
Greg Semach
Affiliation:
Research Biologist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Beaverlodge Research Farm, Beaverlodge, AB, T0H 0C0
Cindy Gampe
Affiliation:
Research Technician, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Scott Research Farm, Scott, SK, S0K 4A0
Larry Michielsen
Affiliation:
Research Scientist, Retired Research Scientist, and Research Technicians, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lacombe Research and Development Centre, Lacombe, AB, T4L 1W1
Patty Reid
Affiliation:
Research Scientist, Retired Research Scientist, and Research Technicians, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lacombe Research and Development Centre, Lacombe, AB, T4L 1W1
Elizabeth Sroka
Affiliation:
Research Scientist, Retired Research Scientist, and Research Technicians, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lacombe Research and Development Centre, Lacombe, AB, T4L 1W1
Jennifer Zuidhof
Affiliation:
Research Scientist, Retired Research Scientist, and Research Technicians, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lacombe Research and Development Centre, Lacombe, AB, T4L 1W1
*
Author for Correspondence: Breanne D. Tidemann; Email: [email protected]
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Wild oat is a significant weed of cropping systems in the Canadian Prairies. Wild oat resistance to herbicides has increased interest in non-chemical management strategies. Harvest weed seed control techniques such as impact mills or chaff collection have been of interest in Prairie crops, with wild oat identified as a key target. To evaluate impacts of crop rotation maturity, harvest management and harvest weed seed control on wild oat, a study was conducted from 2016-2018 at four locations in the Canadian Prairies. Two-year crop rotations with either early, normal, or late-maturity crops were implemented before barley was seeded across all rotations in the final year. In addition, a second factor of harvest management (swathing or straight cut) was included in the study. Chaff collection was used in this study in an attempt to quantify wild oat seeds that were targetable by harvest weed seed control techniques. The hypothesis was that earlier maturing crops would result in increased wild oat capture at harvest and, therefore, lower wild oat populations. Wild oat density and wild oat biomass were lowest in the early maturing rotations. In addition, wild oat biomass was lower in swathed crops than in straight-cut crops. Wild oat seedbank levels reflected a similar trend with the lowest densities in early maturing rotation, then the normal maturity rotation and the late maturing rotation had the highest seedbank densities. Wild oat densities increased in all crop rotations; however, only harvest weed seed control and crop rotation were implemented as control measures. Wild oat numbers in the chaff were not reflective of the earliness of harvest. Crop yields suggest that competitive winter wheat stands contributed to the success of the early maturing rotations compared to other treatments. Early maturing rotations resulted in reduced wild oat populations, likely through a combination of crop competitiveness and rotational diversity, and harvest weed seed control impact in earlier maturing crops.

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