2018
Optimizing winter cover crops for weed management in soybean Year 2
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Kentucky Soybean Promotion Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
AgricultureCrop protectionHerbicide
Parent Project:
Optimizing winter cover crops for weed management in soybeans
Lead Principal Investigator:
Erin Haramoto, University of Kentucky
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Kentucky Soybean Promotion Board
$39,993
Institution Funded:
Kentucky Soybean Board
$39,993
Brief Project Summary:

Winter annual cover crops provide many benefits to Kentucky’s agricultural producers. One particularly important benefit is their contribution towards a program of integrated weed management. While growing, cover crops can suppress both winter annual weeds that emerge in the fall and early-emerging summer annuals in the spring. The ability of cover crops to outcompete and suppress weeds has been linked to the amount of ground that they cover. Species selection (for example, using winter rye or winter wheat), seeding rates, and planting methods all impact the stand establishment and thus the ground cover provided by the cover crop. This trial will compare the weed suppression provided by...

Unique Keywords:
#weed control
Information And Results
Project Deliverables

One outcome of this project will be a better understanding of what factors are most important in determining how cover crops can contribute to winter annual weed management, and whether these factors also affect in-season weed management in the subsequent soybean crop. Additionally, we anticipate that these findings will be disseminated in the peer-reviewed literature and also in blog posts and extension bulletins about the use of cover crops to manage weeds.

Final Project Results

The United Soybean Research Retention policy will display final reports with the project once completed but working files will be purged after three years. And financial information after seven years. All pertinent information is in the final report or if you want more information, please contact the project lead at your state soybean organization or principal investigator listed on the project.