Cleaning soil cultivation or harvesting tools
Presentation
Characterization of the technique
Description of the technique
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The technique consists of cleaning soil tillage, harvesting, or pruning tools between plots. This measure is particularly essential when it is known that one will move from a plot contaminated by a bioagressor that risks being spread to a healthy plot. Cleaning should be done with bleach or alcohol, using brushes, or with cleaning equipment using air or water under pressure. Special attention must be paid when using contractors or lending equipment between farms.
Implementation period
- On established crops: The technique is mainly to be implemented during the campaign, but bioagressors could probably survive on the equipment from one year to the next.
Spatial scale of implementation (Farm/Territory)
- The spatial scale concerned extends to the territory for contractors or in the case of equipment lending.
Application of the technique to...
All crops : Not generalizable
This technique concerns specific and relatively few bioagressors, and thus specific crops.
All soil types : Easily generalizable
All climatic contexts : Easily generalizable
Effects on the sustainability of the cropping system
Environmental criteria
Effect on air quality : Variable
phytosanitary emissions : DECREASE
GHG emissions : VARIABLE
Effect on water quality : Increasing
pesticides : DECREASE
Effect on fossil resource consumption : Variable
fossil energy consumption : VARIABLE
Other : No effect (neutral)
Pollutant transfer to water (N, P, phyto ...) : Decrease
Reduction of pollution risk if treatments are avoided (herbicides, even nematicides).
Pollutant transfer to air (N, P, phyto ...) : Decrease
Reduction of pollution risk if treatments are avoided (herbicides, even nematicides).
Fossil energy consumption : variable
Slight reduction if treatments are avoided, but additional trips may be caused for equipment washing.
GHG emissions : variable
Slight reduction if treatments are avoided, but additional trips may be caused for equipment washing.
Agronomic criteria
Productivity : Variable
This technique helps preserve the production potential of plots whose contamination has been avoided.
Soil fertility : No effect (neutral)
Water stress : No effect (neutral)
Functional Biodiversity : No effect (neutral)
Economic criteria
Operating costs : No effect (neutral)
The cost of this technique is very low.
Mechanization costs : Variable
Slight reduction if treatments are avoided, but additional trips may be caused for equipment washing.
Margin : No effect (neutral)
Social criteria
Working time : Increasing
Slight reduction if treatments are avoided, but a slight increase in working time is sometimes necessary related to cleaning time and possibly increased trips.
Favored or disadvantaged organisms
Disadvantaged bioagressors
| Organism | Impact of the technique | Type | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| [/geco/Concept/_Deperissement_Bacterien Bacterial canker of the apricot tree] | pathogen (bioagressor) | Bacterial canker on tomato : transmission via seed, irrigation, and especially cultural operations : disinfect pruning tools, irrigation network, harvesting crates. Avoid lending equipment. | |
| Common ragweed | weeds | Likely spread via combine harvesters. | |
| Common bunt of wheat | pathogen (bioagressor) | Cleaning soil tillage tools. | |
| Western corn rootworm | pest, predator or parasite | Beware of spread via forage harvesters and combine harvesters. | |
| Dodder | weeds | Cleaning soil tillage tools. | |
| Onion fusariosis | pathogen (bioagressor) | On flax. Cleaning soil tillage and harvesting tools. | |
| Golden nematode of potato | pest, predator or parasite | Few known modes of dispersion other than contaminated plant material or soil stuck to tools, tires, etc. | |
| Branched broomrape | weeds | Cleaning soil tillage and harvesting tools. | |
| Perennial ryegrass | weeds | Spread of herbicide-resistant weeds via combine harvesters. | |
| Italian ryegrass | weeds | Spread of herbicide-resistant weeds via combine harvesters. | |
| Barley mosaic virus | pathogen (bioagressor) | Cleaning soil tillage tools. | |
| Cereal mosaic virus | pathogen (bioagressor) | Cleaning soil tillage tools. | |
| Field fox-tail | weeds | Spread of herbicide-resistant weeds via combine harvesters. |
For more information
- Hygiene of cultivation tools
- -French Plant Protection Association, coordination : Jean-Louis Bernard
AFPP guide working group, provisional document as of 12 February 2011, Technical brochure, 2011
- Technical assistance memo for the implementation of good agronomic practices, plant health section
- -Délos M. et al. (DRAAF- SRAl)
DRAAF, Publication, 2011
Not distributed
Keywords
Bioagressor control method : Cultural control
Mode of action : Action on the initial stock
Type of strategy regarding pesticide use : Redesign
Annexes
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