Furrow vs hill planting of sprinkler-irrigated russet burbank potatoes on coarse-textured soils

Steele, Dean D.; Greenland, Richard G; Hatterman‐Valenti, Harlene

doi:10.1007/bf02872161

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“…As the sunlight falls on the leaves in different angles in various regions around the globe, the idea was to examine the effect of sunlight when the crop is sown in east-west as well as north-south directions. A similar research was conducted by Steele et al (2006) in USA who reported no effect of sowing orientation on potato crop. A second way of environment friendly weed management was the planting spacing which can improve the competition potential of potato plants with the growing weeds (Berkowitz, 1988;Forcella et al, 1992).…”

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Non-Chemical Weed Management in Potato at Higher Elevations

Hussain¹,

Khan²,

Ilyas³

et al. 2016

Appl Ecol Env Res

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Abstract.A field experiment was carried out at the Agriculture Research Station, Chitral, Pakistan in 2014 to determine the effect of sowing orientation, planting spacing and mulching on yield and weeds of potato crop, using a three factorial RCB design. The sowing orientation (Factor A) had two levels viz., north-south and east-west sowing, plant spacing (Factor B) with three levels of 15, 25 and 35 cm, and mulching (Factor C) of Cannabis sativa L. biomass as mulch, Plantago lanceolata L. biomass as mulch along with a hand weeded treatment and a weedy control. The experiment results revealed a significant effect of sowing orientation, planting spacing, mulching and their interactions on the crop and weeds. The east-west sowing resulted in an increased weed density and biomass, whereas the north-south direction produced greater plant heights, greater number of leaves, tuber weight plant -1 and tuber yield. Plant spacing of 35 cm showed a significant increase in weed density and biomass, number of leaves and tubers plant -1 and tuber weight plant -1. Plant spacing of 15 cm resulted in increased plant height and tuber yield. On the other hand, lowest weed density and biomass, number of leaves and tubers plant -1 and tuber weight were noted at planting space of 15 cm. Among the treatments of factor C, weedy check gave highest weed density and biomass ha -1 and plant heights, while the number of leaves and tubers plant -1 , tuber weight plant -1 and yield ha -1 were the highest in hand weeding treatments. The weedy check showed lowest number of leaves and tubers plant -1 , tuber weight plant -1 and yield ha -1 . In conclusion, the N-S sowing orientation, planting spacing of 15 cm and the mulching of plant biomasses of C. sativa and P. lanceolata proved the best combination for an environment-friendly weed management in potato at the higher elevations.

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Non-Chemical Weed Management in Potato at Higher Elevations

Hussain¹,

Khan²,

Ilyas³

et al. 2016

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“…The symmetry and periodicity of the ridge and furrow structure enable us to describe the complete system with a single half-period of the ridge and furrow geometry. The geometry used in this study is shown in Figure 1 by the domain Λ, which was chosen to be consistent with the dimensions for typical ridge and furrow geometries (Steele et al, 2006;Li et al, 2007). We approximate the soil surface Λ S (see Figure 1) by the periodic function:…”

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“…To replicate the dimensions of ridge and furrow geometries, we used the values = 0.5 m, A = C = 1 6 m and B = 2 m −1 (Steele et al, 2006;Li et al, 2007). Furthermore, potato (Solanum tuberosum, L) is shallow rooted with the majority of its roots in the plough layer (i.e.…”

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Mathematical modelling of water and solute movement in ridge plant systems with dynamic ponding

Duncan

Daly

Sweeney

et al. 2017

European J Soil Science

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We present a mathematical model that describes the movement of water and solutes in a ridge and furrow geometry. We focus on the effects of two physical processes: root water uptake and pond formation in the furrows. Special attention is paid to the physical description of ponding as an effect of transient rain events. We focus on phenomena taking place in the furrow cross‐section, not on the drainage along the furrow. The resulting model comprises a coupled system of partial and ordinary differential equations that describe the mathematical interplay between solute transport, water movement and furrow pond depth. The system of equations is solved numerically using finite element techniques. We conducted numerical simulations to determine how mobile solutes with low buffer powers penetrate into the soil. We considered two cases: low rainfall, in which pond formation does not occur, and high rainfall, in which significant ponding is observed in the furrows. We found, in the presence of roots, that mobile solutes collected into a concentrated spot adjacent to the root system independent of rainfall intensity. In the absence of roots, however, we observed that water infiltration from ponding acted as the dominant transport mechanism for mobile solutes. This resulted in deep solute penetration into the soil when compared with non‐ponded furrows. Highlights Effect of furrow ponding and plant water uptake on solute movement in ridged fields. We developed a mathematical model that describes ponding in furrows from rainfall events. Solute ‘hot spots’ formed in soil from surface ponding and root water uptake. We estimate reduced risk to solute leaching under the effects of ponding when roots are present in soil.

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“…There have been several experimental efforts to determine the difference in potato growth and production between ridge and furrow planting and other tillage methods. Such methods include wide beds (Mundy et al, 1999), flat planting (Lewis & Rowberry, 1973) and furrow-only planting (Steele et al, 2006). Both ridge and furrow and flat planting result in similar yields and tuber size (Lewis & Rowberry, 1973;Alva et al, 2002), but ridge and furrow planting has been found to be the preferred method of tillage (Jordan et al, 2013) because of ease of harvesting (Leistra & Boesten, 2010b), slow seed germination (Benjamin et al, 1990) and nutrient replenishment in the soil (Feddes et al, 1976).…”

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Mathematical modelling of water and solute movement in ridged versus flat planting systems

Duncan

Daly

Sweeney

et al. 2018

European J Soil Science

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Summary We compared water and solute movement between a ridge and furrow geometry and that of flat soil with a mathematical model. We focused on the effects of two physical processes: root water uptake and pond formation on the soil surface. The mathematical model describes the interaction between solute transport, water movement and surface pond depth. Numerical simulations were used to determine how solutes of varying mobility and rates of degradation penetrated into the two soil geometries over a growing season. Both the ridge and furrow or flat soil geometries could reduce solute leaching, but this depended on several factors. Rain immediately after a solute application was a key factor in determining solute penetration into soil. In cases with delayed rain after a solute application, solutes in ridge and furrow geometries collected adjacent to the root system, resulting in reduced solute penetration compared to the flat soil geometry. In contrast, substantial rain immediately after a solute application resulted in ponding where water infiltration acted as the dominant transport mechanism. This resulted in increased solute penetration in the ridge and furrow geometry compared to the flat soil geometry. Highlights We studied solute movement controlled by ponding in ridge and furrow and flat fields. We found the ridged soil could impede or increase leaching compared to the flat soil. Solute hot‐spots formed in ridge and furrow soil because of root water uptake. Time between solute application and rainfall is a key factor for solute penetration.

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Furrow vs hill planting of sprinkler-irrigated russet burbank potatoes on coarse-textured soils

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

Non-Chemical Weed Management in Potato at Higher Elevations

Non-Chemical Weed Management in Potato at Higher Elevations

Mathematical modelling of water and solute movement in ridge plant systems with dynamic ponding

Mathematical modelling of water and solute movement in ridged versus flat planting systems

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