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1. Sweet Corn Herbicides & Variety Sensitivity Doug Doohan, Joel Felix and Tim Koch – OARDC, Wooster
2. Focus Optimizing weed control
using herbicides effectively
varietal sensitivity
3. Optimizing Weed Control Not depending entirely upon herbicides.
Why not?
Lose effectiveness
Use too much
4. Weed shifts / Resistance
5. Optimizing Weed Control Use a variety of methods (Integration)
Site Preparation
Cultural Methods
Chemical Methods
Mechanical Methods
6. Site Preparation
7. Cultural Methods Prevention
Eradication
Crop Rotation
8. Herbicides Options PREPLANT
preplant burn down
preplant incorporated (PPI)
PRE - preemergence
POST – postemergence
9. PREPLANT Preplant burn down
late seeding following early seed bed preparation
seeding into sod that wasn’t killed previous autumn
10. PREPLANT Preplant burn down
glyphosate; Gramoxone; 2,4-D; Banvel
Can tank-mix with PRE herbicides
11. PREPLANT PPI
Why?
Reduce dependence upon rainfall for activation
Improve control of yellow nutsedge
12. PREPLANT PPI
Eradicane, Sutan+ -
grasses, nutsedge, some broadleaf weeds
Dual II Magnum, Frontier, Lasso/Pardner –
annual grasses, nutsedge, some broadleaf weeds
13. PRE Atrazine – max. rate 2.5 lb ai/A.
Bladex – legal until Dec. 31, 2002
Dual – many Dual products, Dual II is safer on corn
Bicep – premixes of Dual and atrazine with product range and features of Duals
14. PRE Atrazine & Bladex
mainly broadleaf weeds
PRE and POST activity
triazine resistant biotypes
carryover problems with atrazine
Bladex can injure corn under plastic and if applied POST
15. PRE Dual II Magnum
Lasso
Frontier
annual grass herbicides, suppress nutsedge
PRE with very little POST activity
POST applications can slightly injury sweet corn
Poor control of mid/late summer grasses
16. POST Atrazine + oil
apply before crop is 12 inches
Tank-mix with crop oil concentrate
17. POST AIM
weed control
controls velvetleaf, nightshade, pigweed, annual morningglories and lambsquarters
apply when weeds are 1-4 inches tall
18. POST AIM
crop Safety
apply up to 8 collar stage on corn
slight injury common
position nozzles 18 inches above crop
do not apply within 6-8 hours of rain
do not spray into the whorl
GROWER ASSUMES LIABILITY
19. POST BASAGRAN
Very safe to crop
Non-residual
Controls “small” broadleaf weed seedlings
Timing Is Critical
Suppresses nutsedge and thistles
20. POST Dual - apply up to 5 leaf stage of the crop and 1 leaf stage of grasses
Frontier - apply to 12 inch tall corn but before weeds emerge.
21. POST Permit
Controls nutsedge, pigweed, velvetleaf, ragweed and cocklebur
Non Ionic Surfactant required
Cultivar sensitivities occur
Do Not Apply During Periods of Water Saturated Soil
Grower Assumes Liability
22. POST Prowl
controls triazine-resistant weeds and annual grasses when applied before emergence
Plant corn at least 1.5 inches deep
Apply at the “spike” stage or up to 12 inches high
23. Sweet Corn Herbicides and Variety Sensitivity Sulfonyl Urea herbicides
Accent, Beacon, Peak, Permit
1/10 cultivars may be severely injured
reduced OR compromised detoxification
Compromised by stress around the time of application
High or low temperatures
Water-logged soils
OP insecticides
24. Sweet Corn Herbicides and Variety Sensitivity-OSU Research-
3 years of field research with Permit
15 + cultivars
injury and yield loss in 1/3 years (2000)
Why bother?
25. Permit(halosulfuron) 1 or 2 applications of 1 1/3 oz/A.
2/3 oz/A reduced tuber density by 80%. (Nelson & Renner)
26. Conclusions - 2000 Tolerant varieties at 1.33 oz/A included Kandy Corner, Ice Queen, Bandit, and Seneca Dancer.
Tolerant varieties at 0.66 oz/A included Sweet Rhythm, Sensor, Extra Tender.
Sensitive varieties included Fortune, Amazingly Sweet, Kandy King, Immaculata, Confection, and Silver King.
27. 2001 2000 OSU study was repeated with additional site in IN.
non replicated study in MI
28. Conclusions - 2001 No yield reductions!
Limited injury symptoms!
Kandy King (13%), Fortune (10%)
Amazingly Sweet, Immaculata, Confection, Sensor (trace)
29. What to take home? Cultivar sensitivity is real and is uncertain
Don’t assume tolerance, use at own risk
Environmental conditions are very important
Stay tuned
30. Wrap Up Optimize weed control and crop safety by “integrating” methods
chemical, cultural, mechanical
Herbicide options (preplant, pre, post) driven by individual situation analysis
weed community, site preparation
Growers assuming more management expertise and risk
university research