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In
1994, an integrated, multidisplinary effort involving 11 states
and over 35 state and federal scientists was initiated by
the National Jointed Goatgrass Research Program with a CSREES
special grant. Initially, the projects focused on individual
management practices, certain aspects of jointed goatgrass
biology and ecology, and components of technology transfer.
The goal of the program is to ensure that producers have the
best and most recent information possible to successfully
manage jointed goatgrass in winter wheat.
The National Jointed Goatgrass
Research program has taught thousands of wheat producers how
to properly identify jointed goatgrass, prevent its spread,
and manage it in a winter wheat-based cropping system.
The program continues to develop new management strategies
and implement them through a commitment to technology transfer.
Methods developed to control jointed goatgrass will also control
other costly weeds in winter wheat, such as downy brome, feral
rye and other winter annual grasses. Overall, the economic
impact of jointed goatgrass will be reduced and U.S. wheat
production will remain profitable and competitive in the world
market.
Over 30 professional scientists
in 11 Western states are currently engaged in an integrated,
multidisciplinary effort to reduced the impact of jointed
goatgrass on winter wheat production. Below are some
of the topics they have or currently are researching:
- Integrated management
- Technology transfer
- Planting practices
- Tillage systems
- Competitive wheat cultivars
- Crop rotations
- Genetic diversity
- Gene flow
- Best Management Practices
(BMP) sites
- Herbicide resistance
- Population dynamics
- Controlling JGG seed production
- Seed longevity and viability
Several experiments are being
conducted at multiple locations cooperatively among scientists,
using similar experimental designs and treatments to broaden
the scope of implications from individual research results |
Producers
in Utah Use Safflower to Knock Out Jointed Goatgrass.
Growers are rapidly
searching for alternative control methods. Scientists
at Utah State University have stepped up to develop new ways
to battle this troublesome weed. Read more....