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Rotary hoeing +/- Flaming in Dry Beans

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

-E. Taylor

This is the final year of a two year study conducted at the Kellogg Biological Station looking at using flaming and rotary hoeing in combination for early season weed control in dry beans. The ‘Jaguar’ black beans were put in late this year due to rain. Weed control treatments were as follows.

Treatment
Timing*

1

2

3

4

5

6
Preemergence

Flame

Flame

Flame

–

Rotary Hoe

–
VC

–

Flame

Rotary Hoe

Rotary Hoe

Rotary Hoe

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VC-V1

–

–

Rotary Hoe

Rotary Hoe

Rotary Hoe

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V2

Cultivate

Cultivate

Cultivate

Cultivate

Cultivate

Cultivate

*Timings were based on the size of the dry beans. This video shows a quick walk-thru of the plots from Tuesday right before their first cultivation.

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2009 GDD rotary hoe dry bean harvest

Monday, October 5th, 2009

-E. Taylor

Last Thursday we took advantage of one of the only nice days and harvested the black beans in our study examining rotary hoeing based on growing degree days. Things in this field had gotten fairly weedy due to rains that brought on a late flush of weeds after cultivation was complete, so we hand harvested. Looking at the raw data yields seemed to be variable, so I won’t know if there were any significant differences until I run some statistics. I will be presenting the results from this study for soybean and drybean from 2007-2009 at the 2010 Weed Science Society of America conference in Denver, CO.

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Dry Bean Harvest in the Rotary Hoe Study

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

-Erin Taylor

To address organic weed control needs we conducted a rotary hoe timing trial comparing the use of growing degree days to calendar days. This week we hand harvested the black beans to compare yields among treatments; next week we will harvest the soybean portion of the trial using our two row plot combine. 

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