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CONVISO® SMART
SMART Crop Rotation
SMART farmers have a SMART crop rotation
A diverse crop rotation with a mixture of summer and winter crops is the foundation for long-term productivity, not only for CONVISO® SMART, but across all crops. When planning your crop rotation, keep in mind:
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1. Reduced weed pressure
Alternating between winter and spring crops, as well as broadleaved crops and cereals, will prevent that single weed species become too dominant (and problematic).
2. Rotating herbicide modes of action
With a variety of crops, it gets easier to change between different herbicide modes of action and introduce more non-ALS actives in the crop rotation. This is key for good resistance management.
Which crops after CONVISO® SMART sugar beet?
After Crop failure due to frost or flooding in the same spring
- SMART KWS sugarbeet
- Corn (after ploughing)
Autumn Sowing
- Winter Wheat
In the year after application in a normal crop rotation:
- Spring wheat
- Spring barley
- Corn
- Peas
- Field beans
- Sunflowers
- Soybeans
- Potatoes (waiting time 1 year *)
- Spring oilseed rape (waiting time 1 year *
- Mustard (as green manure)
Why is it important to choose the correct crop following CONVISO® SMART sugarbeet?
The following crop might be sensitive to the herbicide CONVISO® ONE and carry-over effects could occur. Herbicide carry-over is the potential of the herbicide to harm crops in the following crop rotation. There are 3 main risk factors:
Efficient weed management is in your hands:
choose the best strategies based on the weed situation in your fields.
Get exclusive CONVISO® SMART advice for a suitable weed control strategy with the digital grower manual or by using the decision support for the CONVISO® ONE application. Improve your future integrated weed control with agronomic and chemical plant protection measures that will guide you towards a more successful sugarbeet cultivation.
SMART Farmers go for a SMART Crop Rotation!
