ABSTRACT:
The influences of wind stripcropping using weeping lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula) on cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) growth and yield were evaluated. Plant height, plant stand density, seed cotton yield, and soil-water loss were determined as functions of distance from the weeping lovegrass strip. Four sites in Lubbock County, Texas, were evaluated during the 3-year period. Because of weather and cooperators' participation in government programs, only one site was replicated in time. Lint and seed yields indicated that management of weeping lovegrass strips was critical to cotton production. Seed cotton yield declined when lovegrass shaded the cotton or competed for water.
Footnotes
A. Sajjadi is a former graduate research assistant and R. E Zartman is an associate professor of agronomy, horticulture, and entomology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 79409-2122. This report, # TTU-4-248, was supported by RCA special study # 58-7442-3-2698. Materials and varieties mentioned are for the reader's information. They do not imply a recommendation by the authors. Texas Tech University, or the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- Copyright 1990 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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