Claim · model-written summary
Winter irrigation increased annual dry matter yield compared with season-only irrigation.
- Taxon
- Alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- winter irrigatione5
- Outcome
- Annual dry matter yield (DMY)e5
- Direction
- increasede5
- Comparator
- season-only irrigatione5
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Verbatim
t0“Alfalfa Dry Matter Yield”
e5“Annual dry matter yield (DMY) was increased using winter irrigation compared to season-only irrigation (10.34, 8.94, 8.67, and 6.54 Mg ha−1 for winter full, winter limited, season full, and season limited, respectively, p < 0.0001, SEM 0.45)”
Title
Leonard M. Lauriault; Murali K. Darapuneni; Koffi Djaman; et al. Agriculture 2025. doi:10.3390/agriculture15020146
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Winter full irrigation gave annual dry matter yield of 10.34 Mg ha−1.
- Observation Winter limited irrigation gave annual dry matter yield of 8.94 Mg ha−1.
- Observation Season full irrigation gave annual dry matter yield of 8.67 Mg ha−1.
- Observation Season limited irrigation gave annual dry matter yield of 6.54 Mg ha−1.
- Intervention effect Irrigation termination after the fourth harvest without winter irrigation reduced annual applied water use efficiency compared with all other treatments.
- Observation Winter full irrigation gave annual applied water use efficiency of 9.08 kg DMY ha−1 mm−1.
- Observation Winter limited irrigation gave annual applied water use efficiency of 8.59 kg DMY ha−1 mm−1.
- Observation Season full irrigation gave annual applied water use efficiency of 8.82 kg DMY ha−1 mm−1.
- Observation Season limited irrigation gave annual applied water use efficiency of 7.38 kg DMY ha−1 mm−1.
- Recommendation Winter irrigation to fill the soil profile, followed by late-summer irrigation termination, is feasible for increasing alfalfa productivity over season-only irrigation.