Claim · model-written summary
Subsoiling lowered corn net return by $54 per acre.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0 - Treatment
- subsoilinge0
- Outcome
- net return for corne0
- Direction
- lesse0
- Value
- $54/acree0
- Comparator
- no‐tillagee0
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Verbatim
e0“the net return for corn was $54/acre less with subsoiling and $42/acre less with chisel plowing than with no‐tillage or the least amount of tillage needed to prepare a seedbed”
Title
Tillage Effects on Previously Flooded Soils
K. E. Heikens; D. L. Karlen; D. C. Erbach; et al. jpa 1999. doi:10.2134/jpa1999.0409
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Preplant bulk density was lowest after subsoiling.
- Observation Preplant penetration resistance was lowest after subsoiling.
- Observation Postharvest bulk density did not differ significantly.
- Observation Postharvest penetration resistance was lowest in subsoiled areas.
- Intervention effect Tillage did not affect corn yield.
- Intervention effect Tillage did not affect soybean yield.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage significantly reduced preplant bulk density.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage significantly reduced cone penetration resistance.
- Intervention effect Chisel plowing lowered corn net return by $42 per acre.
- Intervention effect Chisel plowing lowered soybean return by $20 per acre.
- Recommendation The authors recommend the least tillage needed to prepare a seedbed after heavy rainfall.