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Assessing nitrate leaching in cropping systems based on integrated weed management using the STICS soil–crop model

C. Bécel
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Bernard Nicolardot

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Agriculture in Europe and other parts of the world is currently under strong pressure to reduce its relianceon pesticides. Regarding arable crops, strategies based on integrated weed management (IWM) combineseveral agronomic practices aimed at reducing herbicide use, but these strategies can generate negativecollateral effects, such as increased nitrate leaching. An evaluation of nitrate leaching in a long-termexperiment set up in 2000 was performed for five tested cropping systems: four IWM-based systems andone reference system. After the validation of the predictive performance of the STICS soil–crop model,nitrate leaching was simulated for the five cropping systems tested over the 12 years of the experimentand over 12 years of implementing alternative scenarios (i.e. the introduction of early sowing for wintercereals, ceasing deep tillage and the introduction of a mustard catch crop). The results showed thatthe total amount of nitrate leaching varied between cropping systems and was lowest in the croppingsystem using no herbicide and that with no tillage, two systems combining several agronomic practices.Alternative scenarios based on both early sowing of winter crops and the introduction of catch cropscan reduce the total amount of nitrate leached by 25 to 43% over the 12 years of simulations, althoughearly sowing can, in some cases, increase nitrate leaching. This study contributes to the multi-criteriaevaluation of innovative cropping systems.
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hal-01862303 , version 1 (27-08-2018)

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C. Bécel, N.M. Munier-Jolain, Bernard Nicolardot. Assessing nitrate leaching in cropping systems based on integrated weed management using the STICS soil–crop model. European Journal of Agronomy, 2015, 62, pp.46 - 54. ⟨10.1016/j.eja.2014.09.005⟩. ⟨hal-01862303⟩
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