Abstract
The climate of the Rostov region is gradually becoming arid. Therefore, winter wheat crops suffer from autumn drought, which results in germination decrease and the necessity to increase the seeding rate. However, new varieties developed in the Agricultural research center “Donskoy” have high energy of tillering both in autumn and in spring, which makes it possible to reduce the seeding rates without crop productivity decrease. The purpose of the current study was to determine the optimal seeding rates for soft winter wheat variety ‘Krasa Dona’ at different planting dates, which allow obtaining high yields with maximum economic efficiency of grain production. The trials were carried out in the southern part of the Rostov region in 2017–2019. The current study has shown that planting dates significantly affect the productivity of winter bread wheat variety ‘Krasa Dona’ sown after such preceding crops as weedfree fallow and sunflower. When the variety was sown in a weedfree fallow on September 10, the productivity was 7.43–7.62 t/ha, on September 20 it was 8.12–8.26 t/ha, on September 30 it was 7.96–8.11 t/ha, on October 10 it was 7.31–7.62, i.e. there was a significant difference between the variants with seeding rates only at the late sowing period. The seeding rate increase at the late sowing periods, even with profitability decrease, has contributed to an additional conditional net income of up to 1470–1670 rubles/ha due to productivity improvement. Depending on a sowing period, the productivity of the winter bread wheat sown after sunflower was 5.23–5.92 t/ha. Furthermore, an increase in seeding rate from 5 to 6–7 million/ha resulted in productivity increase only by 0.08–0.23 t/ha. When ‘Krasa Dona’ was sown on September 20, September 30 and October 10, the maximum conditional net income 27554–32174 rubles/ha at a seeding rate of 6 million/ha was obtained, that was 536–1064 rubles/ha more than in the variant with a seeding rate of 5 million/ha. Different planting dates and seeding rates had no significant effect on the qualitative traits of grain.
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