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Chemical Weed Control in Windbarriers

Adequate cultivation is necessary to obtain good tree survival and growth in the Great Plains. Weed control immediately adjacent to the trees requires special effort and special equipment. Survival and growth are better if the tree rows are free of weeds during most of the growing season. Soil sterilant herbicides may help solve this problem. Farmer cooperation permitted herbicide trials on tree plantings to be extended beyond the experiment station in 1959. New plantings as well as one- and two-year-old plantings were selected. Soil textures ranged from silty clay loam to sandy loam. Rainfall varied generally from 9 inches in western Nebraska to 26 inches in the eastern part during the growing season.


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Author(s): Walter T. Bagley

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 40 (1960)