Claim · model-written summary
Reduced tillage increased soybean yields by 197 kg ha-1.
- Taxon
- soybean
Glycine maxe2 - Treatment
- reduced tillage with or without cover cropse0
- Outcome
- yieldse2
- Direction
- increasede2
- Value
- 197 kg ha − 1e2
- Comparator
- conventional farminge1
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Verbatim
e0“reduced tillage with or without cover crops increased average net farm income by US$132 ha − 1 for maize ( Zea mays L.) and $111 ha − 1 for soybean ( Glycine max (L.) Merr.)”
e1“comparative profitability of conventional farming versus reduced tillage with or without cover crops”
e2“increased yields of 475 kg ha − 1 for maize and 197 kg ha − 1 for soybean”
Title
Partial budget analysis of reduced tillage and cover crops: 100 farmer interviews
Archie Flanders; Dianna K. Bagnall; Elizabeth Rieke; et al. Agronomy Journal 2026. doi:10.1002/agj2.70287
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Reduced tillage with or without cover crops increased average net farm income by US$132 ha-1 in maize.
- Intervention effect Reduced tillage with or without cover crops increased average net farm income by $111 ha-1 in soybean.
- Intervention effect Reduced tillage reduced production expenses by $60 ha-1 in maize.
- Intervention effect Reduced tillage reduced production expenses by $41 ha-1 in soybean.
- Intervention effect Reduced tillage increased maize yields by 475 kg ha-1.
- Association For maize, longer adoption of reduced tillage was associated with changes in net income.
- Association Farm size was not related to changes in net income.
- Intervention effect Net expense changes were not significantly different between farmers using and not using cover crops.
- Observation Yields remained similar under reduced tillage with or without cover crops.
- Observation Net income showed no significant difference between the reduced tillage systems.
- Intervention effect Farmers using cover crops reported significantly lower fertilizer and pesticide expenses.
- Recommendation Reduced tillage with cover crops may provide economic and environmental benefits.