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Table 2.

Crop management in the reference cropping system with a oilseed rape/winter wheat/winter barley rotation simulated with PheraSys.

Cultivation technique Oilseed rape Winter wheat Winter barley
Manure 43 m3/ha à 7.5 kg N/m3 (15 July) None None
Tillage Chisel (15 July) Chisel (15 Aug.) Covercrop (1 Aug.)
2 × covercrop (1 Aug.) Chisel (10 Sept.) Chisel (21 Aug.)
Power harrow (15 Aug.) Spring tine (10 Oct.) Spring tine (10 Sept.)
Spring tine (27 Aug.) Power harrow (8 Oct.)
Sowing date 27 Aug. 10 Oct. 8 Oct.
Sowing density (seeds/m2) 56 344 330
Herbicides1 Trifluraline (26 Aug.) Iodosulfuron-méthyl-sodium + mésosulfuron-méthyl (12 March) Imazaméthabenz-méthyl (7 Nov.)
Napropamide (26 Aug.) 24MCPA + fluroxypyr + clopyralid (5 April) Isoproturon (7 Nov.)
Clomazone + dimétachlore + napropamide (26 Aug.)
Quizalofop-éthyl isomère D (5 Oct.)
Nitrogen fertiliser (kg/ha) 75 (15 Feb.) 65 (15 Feb.) 55 (15 Feb.)
75 (15 March) 92 (15 March) 65 (15 March)
33 (16 April)
Harvest date 12 July 18 July 2 July

Soil texture was 36% clay, 58% loam and 6% sand, with 1% of stones. Soil depth was 90 cm.

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Herbicides were never applied at the total regulatory rate, but usually at only 66-80% of the rate. Applications were carried out at optimal conditions and times and therefore still produced the maximum efficiency rate of the product.

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