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Using Estimates of Weed Pressure to Establish Crop Yield Loss Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

R. Gordon Harvey  and
Clark R. Wagner
R. Gordon Harvey
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
Clark R. Wagner
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
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Abstract

Herbicide efficacy trials in field corn, sweet corn, and soybean were conducted at three locations in Wisconsin over a 6-yr period. Percent weed pressure (WP) was determined by visually estimating the contribution of all weed species present to the total crop and weed volume in each plot. Crop yields in each plot were measured. Percent crop yield reduction (YLDRED) was calculated by comparing mean yields of individual treatments with those of the highest yielding treatment in each trial. Linear regression analyses of YLDRED and WP data from 1640 field corn and 138 sweet corn treatments were significant. Nonlinear regression analysis of YLDRED and WP data from all 1374 soybean treatments was significant; however, a linear regression of those 1154 soybean treatments with WP ratings of 30 or less produced a more easily interpreted regression equation.

Keywords

Field corn, Zea mays L.’ soybean, Glycine max L.’ sweet corn, Zea mays L.Interferenceregression analysisweed pressureAbutilon theophrastiAmaranthus retroflexusChenopodium albumPanicum miliaceumSetaria faberi# ABUTHAMARECHEALPANMISETFA

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Weed Technology , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 114 - 118
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Copyright © 1994 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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