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Intercropping chickpea and flax resulted in eight to 22 per cent of biologically fixed nitrogen being transferred from chickpea to flax during the growing season. This resulted in reduced soil nitrogen depletion compared to monocrop flax. The land equivalent ratio was at or above 1...
In years of moderate disease pressure with cultivars rated as intermediate resistance to ascochyta, two foliar fungicide applications were as effective as four applications for disease management, yield protection, and prevention of seed infection. Chickpea can be a profitable crop in southern Saskatchewan, and is an...
A survey from 2021 through 2023 for the causes of the emerging chickpea health issue was inconclusive. However, interactions of abiotic and biotic factors and the potential for sedaxane-containing seed treatments to reduce severity require further research. A chickpea health issue was first noted in July...
Two weeks after metribuzin treatment, chickpea mortality was 25% at the full label rate, and 56% for the 2X rate. Accumulated chlorosis and necrosis were similar for the control and 1/2X rate. The 1X rate significantly reduced pod production by 75% and was similar to...
Lentil intercropped with faba bean or chickpea had higher total seed yield and LER (Land Equivalent Ratio) than monocrop lentil. Field pea intercrop with faba bean and chickpea produced smaller seed yield, LER and inconsistent results compared to monocrop field pea. Intercropping has gained interest in...
Wheat, canola and chickpea yield and the overall average water use efficiency increased linearly as stubble height increased to 18 inches (45 cm) compared to cultivated stubble. Water use was independent of stubble height. Previous research on the semiarid Prairies found that seeding into 12 inch...
Averaged across 4 years, tall stubble increased yields by about 13% and short stubble increased yields by about 4% compared to yields from cultivated stubble treatments. On the semi-arid Prairies, moisture is often the limiting factor in pulse crop production. While this research is 20 years...
A seeding rate of 50% chickpea and 50% flax resulted in maximum combined yield and land productivity, and reduced Ascochyta blight disease severity by 50 to 67% compared to monocrop chickpea, but flax competed with chickpea and reduced chickpea yield. Ascochyta blight, caused by Ascochyta rabiei,...
In a 3-year crop rotation, replacing summerfallow with a pulse crop increased total grain production by 35.5%, improved protein yield by 51%, and enhanced fertilizer-N use efficiency by 33%. A 3-year crop sequence study was repeated five times (five cycles) from 2005 to 2011 at Swift...
At Swift Current, Saskatchewan, faba beans fixed 60 pounds of nitrogen (N) per acre followed by field pea at almost 50 lbs., chickpea at 46 lbs., lentil at 44 lbs., and dry bean lagging behind at 8.3 lbs. But there were varietal differences within each...
