Weed Control, in Reduced Tillage Cotton on Sandy Soils

J.R. Abernathy, J.W. Keeling, and R.W. Lloyd


 
ABSTRACT

Economic interest exists to achieve cotton production in rotational sequence with wheat or sorghum in a reduced tillage system on irrigated and dry land wind erodible sandy soils of the Texas Southern High Plains. Previous attempts with cotton-sorghum rotations in reduced tillage systems failed for lack of volunteer sorghum control. The topical grass herbicides now provide an answer for volunteer sorghum. Wheat-cotton rotations may include fall planted wheat following cotton to be used as a cover crop for wind erosion control, then chemically terminated with glyphosate thus allowing cotton planting in a minimum tillage system the following spring. A second wheat-cotton rotation is maximum wheat production following cotton, eleven month fallow, then cotton. Herbicidal weed controls for fallow wheat stubble and for minimum tillage cotton into wheat stubble have been investigated. Emphasis has been on herbicides which allow rotational wheat or cotton production on sandy soils without soil residue.



Reprinted from 1985 Proceedings: Beltwide Cotton Production Research Conferences pg. 199
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