Claim · model-written summary
Shank/coulter strip tillage reduced tillage costs by $36.50/ha.
- Taxon
- Sweet Cornt0
- Treatment
- shank/coulter strip tillage systeme0
- Outcome
- tillage costse0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- $36.50/hae0
- Comparator
- conventional tillagee0
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Verbatim
t0“Sweet Corn”
e0“The shank/coulter strip tillage system reduced tillage costs by $36.50/ha compared to conventional tillage ( P = 0.003)”
Title
Strip Tillage for Sweet Corn Production: Yield and Economic Return
John M. Luna; Mary L. Staben HortScience 2002. doi:10.21273/hortsci.37.7.1040
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Rotary strip tillage increased corn yield by 900 kg·ha -1 relative to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Shank/coulter strip tillage gave yields comparable to conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Rotary strip tillage reduced tillage costs by $38.50/ha.
- Intervention effect Rotary strip tillage reduced machinery operating time by 0.59 h·ha -1.
- Intervention effect Shank/coulter strip tillage reduced machinery operating time by 0.47 h·ha -1.
- Observation Slugs damaged corn in several strip tillage fields, requiring slug bait.
- Observation Herbicides used in conventional tillage generally worked in strip tillage.
- Observation Heavy cover crop residue made standard mechanical cultivation more difficult in some strip tillage fields.