Claim · model-written summary
Field pennycress reduced corn yield by 9.5% relative to no cover crop.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0 - Treatment
- FPe0
- Outcome
- corn yielde0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- 9.5%e0
- Comparator
- NCe0
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Verbatim
e0“Compared with NC, cover crops significantly decreased corn yield, with 8.7%, 9.5% and 9.8% reduction following WC, FP and WR, respectively”
Title
Cover crop potential of winter oilseed crops in the Northern U.S. Corn Belt
Ronghao Liu; M. Scott Wells; Axel Garcia y Garcia Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science 2019. doi:10.1080/03650340.2019.1578960
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Winter oilseeds produced 40–50% less spring biomass than winter rye.
- Observation Winter oilseeds accumulated less nitrogen than winter rye.
- Observation Camelina tissue nitrogen was 39.0% higher than winter rye.
- Observation Pennycress tissue nitrogen was 6.6% higher than winter rye.
- Observation Cover crop carbon to nitrogen ratios were below 20:1.
- Intervention effect Cover crops lowered soil nitrate before corn and soybean planting.
- Intervention effect Cover crops did not affect post harvest nitrogen profile after corn and soybean.
- Intervention effect Winter camelina reduced corn yield by 8.7% relative to no cover crop.
- Intervention effect Winter rye reduced corn yield by 9.8% relative to no cover crop.
- Intervention effect Cover crops did not affect soybean growth, yield or nitrogen uptake.