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United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

2010

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Herbicides For Establishing Switchgrass In The Central And Northern Great Plains, Robert B. Mitchell, Kenneth P. Vogel, John Berdahl, Robert A. Masters Jan 2010

Herbicides For Establishing Switchgrass In The Central And Northern Great Plains, Robert B. Mitchell, Kenneth P. Vogel, John Berdahl, Robert A. Masters

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Weed interference limits switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) establishment from seed. Our objectives were to determine the effect of selected post-plant, preemergence herbicides on stand establishment and subsequent biomass yields of adapted upland switchgrass cultivars grown in three environments in the Central and Northern Great Plains. A separate experiment was conducted in eastern Nebraska to determine if there were any differences among switchgrass ecotypes for herbicide tolerance to the optimal herbicide combination. Herbicides applied immediately after planting were different concentrations of atrazine [Aatrex 4L®; 6- chloro-N-ethyl-N′-(1-methylethyl)-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine], quinclorac (Paramount®; 3,7-Dichloro-8-quinolinecarboxylic acid), atrazine+quinclorac, imazapic …