Cover Crop Introduction
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Cover Crops for Sustainable Weed Management in a Semi-
Arid Climate Pear (Pyruscommunis) Orchard in Israel
Goldwasser Y1, Abrahams J2, Ogany Y3, Sibony M1 and Rubin B1
1R.H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel
2Soil Conservation and Drainage Unit, Northern District/Western Galilee Branch, Ministry of Agriculture, Yad
Natan 25212, Israel3Matityahu Research Station, A.R.O, Upper Galilee13860,
Israel
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Cover Crop Introduction
• The use of cover crops (CC) is an important component in sustainable agriculture with a wide range of proven benefits in field crops and orchards.
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Benefits of Cover Crops
• Prevention of soil and wind erosion
• Enhancement of soil properties (aeration, fertility and moisture retention)
• Increasing of beneficial insects and predators for biological control of pests
• Non-chemical suppression of weeds
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Cover Crops suppress weeds by:
• Crop competition
• Shading
• Release of phytotoxic
allelopathic substances
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Oat CC emerging in young citrus orchard
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Avocado planting into oat CC
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Weed management on (herbicides) ,and between (CC) tree rows
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Mowing of alfalfa CC in avocado
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Mowed and dry oat CC in young avocado orchard
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Rhodes grass CC in avocado orchard
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Introduction
• In the previous meeting we presented the use of rain-fed dry land CC in orchards in Israel and reported our research in a mature apple orchard in the Upper Galilee of Israel.
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Apples 2009
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Seeding of CC experiment in an apple orchard
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CC experiment in an apple orchard
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CC experiment in apple orchard
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AIM
The aim of our present research is to study the role of cover crop management on weed suppression in a newly planted pear orchard in the Upper Galilee of Israel.
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Pears 2009
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Materials & Methods Log
2008Nov. 19 - Building of ridgesNov. 20 - Disking of ridgesNov. 27 - CC seeding2009Jan. 05 - CC and weed estimationFeb. 15 - Pear tree plantingMar. 11 - CC and weed estimationMay 03 - CC and weed estimation
Hand spray weeds in Standard management treatmentsApr. 19 - CC and weed estimation
Mowing of all controlsJun. 17 - CC and weed estimationJul. 29 - CC and weed estimationAug. 27 - CC and weed estimation
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1. Natural weed cover- Mowing2. Standard management- Herbicide spraying and mowing3. Oat CC 4. Oat CC + tree row mulch5. Oat+Vetch CC6. Oat+Vetch CC + tree row mulch7. Triticale8. Triticale+ tree row mulch
4 Replications3 CC strips, 30 m long, 3.5 m wide
Materials & Methods Treatments
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Results
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Cover Crop Coverage Estimation
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Weed Coverage Estimation
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Weed Inventory Winter Weeds
• Malva nicaeesis• Sinapis arvensis• Silybum marianum• Ranunculus arvensis
• Senecio vernalis• Lamium amplexicaule• Avena sterilis• Hordeum glaucum
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Weed Inventory Summer Weeds
• Polygonum equisetiforme• Convelvelous arvensis• Ecballium elaterium• Chrozophora tinctoria• Amaranthus retroflexus• Amaranthus hybridus• Amaranthus albus
• Lactuca serriola • Chenopodium vulvaris• Solanum nigrum• Plantago lagopus • Conyza arvensis• Tribulus terrestris• Portulaca oleracea
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28 October 2008
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27 November 2008
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CC seedingCC seeding
27 Nov. 2008
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03 May 2009
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03 May 2009
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24 May 2009
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17 June 2009
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3 May 2009
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17 June 2009
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29 July 2009
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27 August 2009
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Oat+Vetch
March 2009
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Natural cover and standard management
19 April 2009
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03 May 2009
Oat
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St. Jonathan (1.80 m) and the oat beard
3 May 2009
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Triticale
April 19 2009
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April 19 2009
Oat+vetch
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Natural cover and standard management mowing
April 19 2009
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Oat+Vetch
May 24 2009
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Oat+Vetch
17 June 2009
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Triticale
17 June 2009
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17 June 2009
OatOat
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17 June 2009
Oat+Vetch
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Triticale
29 July 2009
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29 July 2009
Oat+Vetch
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29 July 2009
Triticale
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27 August 2009
Oat+Vetch
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Conclusion
• Cover crops suppressed weed infestation in a young pear orchard.
• Cover crops reduced both the number of weed species and the number of weeds within a weed specie.
• In this first year Cover crops study, results show that the combination of Oats and Vetch were the most efficient in weed suppression.
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Future research
• Long term monitoring of the development of CC and weed species and populations.
• Evaluation of the benefits of throwing CC mulch on tree rows.
• Determining the separate roles of shading, crop competition and allellopathy of the different CCs on weed suppression.
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Acknowledgments
The Matityahu Experiment Station staff for maintenance of the field experiment
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