It is important to control weedy grasses in the rotational crop, since many grasses are hosts of take-all. If crop rotation is not feasible, we can try to reduce the summer survival of the take-all fungus. Burning followed by one or two tillage passes will hasten the breakdown of the wheat residue. Plowing may bury the residue deep enough that the take-all has trouble attacking new seedlings. Of course, these methods are not appropriate for highly erodible land.
Late planting is sometimes helpful because it gives more time for the take-all fungus to die out.
It also leaves less time for the new seedling roots to penetrate the old residue and become infected in the fall. Afterwards, take-all severity usually remains low enough to tolerate. However, just one year of rotation to a different crop means you have to start all over again. That means you have to suffer high losses for several years before you regain take-all decline. Take-all doesn't like acid soils and is suppressed when the pH gets much below 6.0.