Minimum Tillage Corn Trial

Minimum tillage practices have tremendous potential to reduce expenses and potential negative environmental effects caused by intensive cropping operations. Conventional tillage practices require heavy machinery to work and groom the soil surface in preparation for the planter. The immediate advantage of reduced tillage for the farm operator is less fuel expense, equipment, time, and labor required. It’s also clear that intensive tillage potentially increases nutrient and soil losses to our surface waterways. By turning the soil and burying surface residue, more soil particles are likely to detach from the soil surface and run off from agricultural fields. Reducing the amount and intensity of tillage can help build soil structure and reduce soil erosion

Minimum Tillage Corn Trial

Minimum tillage practices have significant potential to reduce expenses and the potential negative environmental effects caused by intensive tillage operations. Conventional tillage practices require heavy machinery to work and groom the soil surface in preparation for the planter. The immediate advantage of reduced tillage for the farm operator is less fuel expense, equipment, time, and labor required. It’s also clear that intensive tillage potentially increases nutrient and soil losses to our surface waterways. By turning the soil and burying surface residue, more soil particles are likely to detach from the soil surface and increase the potential for run off from agricultural fields. Reducing the amount and intensity of tillage can help build soil structure and reduce soil erosion

THE DETERMINANTS OF ADOPTION OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGIES: EVIDENCE FROM THE HILLSIDES OF HONDURAS

Recent years have seen a growth of interest in the adoption and diffusion of low-input sustainable agricultural technologies among smallholder agriculturalists in developing countries. This paper examines the adoption of one such technology, labranza minima, a form of minimum tillage, among resource-poor agricultural households in villages in central Honduras. Logistic regression is used to analyze the determinants of adoption of minimum tillage among a sample of 250 agricultural households. The results show that plots with irrigation, plots farmed by their owners and plots with steeper slopes were more likely canididates for minimum tillage adoption. Farmer household characteristics are not generally found to represent significant influences on adoption. Importantly, household income does not appar to be a determinant of adoption, suggesting that minimum tillage is an appropriate low-input technology for resource-poor households. The results also indicate that previous use of leguminous cover crops, soil amendments (including chemical fertilizers), and commercial vegetable production are all associated with minimum tillage adoption. Results from studies like this are useful in targeting low-input technologies and programs promoting them among the farm household population.technology adoption, sustainable agriculture, minimum tillage, Farm Management,

Grass control and minimum tillage herbicides

Bromegrass. Wheat loss caused by bromegrass - 80WH47. Herbicides for bromegrass control - 80WH48. Bromegrass control - spraytop - 79NO41. Control of bromegrass – spraytop - 79BA59. Brome and barley grass control - 80NA62. Wild oats. Wild oat control - comparison of commercial treatments – 80NO44. Wild oat control - minimum tillage system - high challenge SITE - 80NO45. Ryegrass. Ryegrass control. Hoegrass effect of rates x volumes x times of application - 80SG41. Barley grass. Barley grass control in wheat - 80SG40. Pasture manipulation. Pasture manipulation - grass reduction - 79A31. Pasture manipulation - rates of herbicide - 80AB3. 80NA53. Herbicides for grass control in pasture, rates and times - 80A37,80BA39. Grass control herbicide in pastures - 80NA51. Herbicide for grass control in pastures - 80M036. Atrazine in cereals. Atrazine mixtures for cereals - 80M044. Minimum tillage herbicides. Herbicide requirement for minimum tillage systems - 80A38. Minimum tillage herbicides - 80BA41. Post planting - pre-emergent. Herbicides for minimum tillage systems - 80A41. Minimum tillage herbicides - knockdown - 80BA40. Herbicides for minimum tillage - pre-plant - 80A40. Herbicides for minimum tillage. pre-plant, with some knockdown - 80N23. Herbicides for minimum tillage - 80WH46

Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: Does Agroecology Matter?

This paper uses data from household- and plot-level surveys conducted in the highlands of the Tigray and Amhara regions of Ethiopia to examine the contribution of sustainable land-management practices to net values of agricultural production in areas with low- and high-agricultural potential. A combination of parametric and nonparametric estimation techniques is used to check result robustness. Both techniques consistently predict that minimum tillage is superior to commercial fertilizers—as are farmers’ traditional practices without use of commercial fertilizers—in enhancing crop productivity in the low-agricultural potential areas. In the high-agricultural potential areas, by contrast, use of commercial fertilizers is superior to both minimum tillage and farmers’ traditional practices without commercial fertilizers. The results are found to be insensitive to hidden bias. Our findings imply a need for careful agroecological targeting when developing, promoting, and scaling up sustainable land-management practices.agricultural productivity, commercial fertilizer, Ethiopia, low and high agricultural potential, minimum tillage, propensity score matching, switching regression

Minimum tillage trials 1977

Minimum tillage trials 1977. Locations: Wongan Hills R.S., Avondale, Merredin, Mt. Barker, Esperance. Sites: At each station two sites were used, the first was under crop in 1976 and the trial will be repeated each year on the same area. The second site was under pasture in 1976 and was due to be cropped in 1977 as part of the normal district practice. The trials will be planted on a similar pasture site in 1978. Results. Apart from crop yields, weed counts (before spraying) and crop plant numbers were taken. Other measurements were made by various research officers and reported elsewhere. The schedule of operations and the results are summarised in the following tables ... Perennial roadside grass control Expt - 77G242. Comparison of cultivation mechanisms for minimum tillage - 77WH30. Minimum tillage herbicides - 77A26. 77WH31

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Minimum Tillage for Corn

Minimum tillage for corn discusses methods of planting, including strip processing, modified rototilling, hard ground listing, chisel plowing, wheel track planting, plow planting, and once-over tillage. Included are advantages and disadvantages of water infiltration, soil erosion and temperature, water evaporation, soil compaction and aeration, soil structure, and adaption to soil types. Problems, such as weed control, fertilizer placement, insect control, and the economics of minimum tillage, as also discussed

The effects of minimal tillage, contour cultivation and in-field vegetative barriers on soil erosion and phosphorus loss.

Runoff, sediment, total phosphorus and total dissolved phosphorus losses in overland flow were measured for two years on unbounded plots cropped with wheat and oats. Half of the field was cultivated with minimum tillage (shallow tillage with a tine cultivator) and half was conventionally ploughed. Within each cultivation treatment there were different treatment areas (TA). In the first year of the experiment, one TA was cultivated up and down the slope, one TA was cultivated on the contour, with a beetle bank acting as a vegetative barrier partway up the slope, and one had a mixed direction cultivation treatment, with cultivation and drilling conducted up and down the slope and all subsequent operations conducted on the contour. In the second year, this mixed treatment was replaced with contour cultivation. Results showed no significant reduction in runoff, sediment losses or total phosphorus losses from minimum tillage when compared to the conventional plough treatment, but there were increased losses of total dissolved phosphorus with minimum tillage. The mixed direction cultivation treatment increased surface runoff and losses of sediment and phosphorus. Increasing surface roughness with contour cultivation reduced surface runoff compared to up and down slope cultivation in both the plough and minimum tillage treatment areas, but this trend was not significant. Sediment and phosphorus losses in the contour cultivation treatment followed a very similar pattern to runoff. Combining contour cultivation with a vegetative barrier in the form of a beetle bank to reduce slope length resulted in a non-significant reduction in surface runoff, sediment and total phosphorus when compared to up and down-slope cultivation, but there was a clear trend towards reduced losses. However, the addition of a beetle bank did not provide a significant reduction in runoff, sediment losses or total phosphorus losses when compared to contour cultivation, suggesting only a marginal additional benefit. The economic implications for farmers of the different treatment options are investigated in order to assess their suitability for implementation at a field scale

Minimum Tillage for Corn

This publication explains several minimum tillage planting methods such as strip processing, till, chisel, wheel track, and plow planting, modified rototilling, hard ground listing, and once-over tillage. Problems, advantages, and disadvantages of minimum tillage are also discussed