Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest strip tillage and band fertilizer placement could raise economic productivity on eroded low-fertility corn land.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0
- Outcome
- increase the economic productivitye0
- Setting
- Pacific Northweste0
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Verbatim
e0“Reduced costs of strip tillage with associated band placement of fertilizer could increase the economic productivity of many acres of eroded/low fertility land in the Pacific Northwest used for corn grain production.”
Title
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Fertilizer Placement in Corn Production
David D. Tarkalson; David L. Bjorneberg Northwest Irrigation & Soils Research Laboratory Publications (United States Department of Agriculture) 2010
Other claims from this paper (2)
- Intervention effect Band fertilizer placement with strip tillage increased corn grain yield by 12.5 percent (11 bu per acre) versus broadcast nitrogen and phosphorus in 2007.
- Intervention effect Band fertilizer placement with strip tillage increased corn grain yield by 25.9 percent (26 bu per acre) versus 2 by 2 nitrogen under conventional tillage in 2009.