Is Diversified Crop Rotation an Effective Non-Chemical Strategy for Protecting Triticale Yield and Weed Diversity?

• Published in: Agronomy (Basel) Vol. 13; no. 6; p. 1589
• Main Authors: Jastrzębska, Magdalena, Kostrzewska, Marta K., Marks, Marek
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.06.2023
• Subjects: Agricultural practices; Agricultural production; agronomy; Beans; Biomass; Broad beans; Business competition; Competition; Crop rotation; Crop yields; cropping system; Cropping systems; Cultivars; Flax; Growing season; Herbicides; Legumes; long term experiments; Mimosaceae; Poland; Potatoes; Rényi diversity profiles; Shannon–Wiener index; species richness; Strategic planning (Business); Strategy; Taxonomy; Triticale; Weather; Weed control; Weeds; Winter; x Triticosecale Wittm. ex A. Camus; yield components; Poland; United Kingdom

Diversified crop rotation (DCR) has re-gained attention worldwide as a non-chemical practice for increasing the sustainability of cereal production systems. This study focused on comparing the effects of two weed management strategies, DCR (the six-field system: potato–oat–fiber flax–winter rye–faba...