Claim · model-written summary
Peanut yield declined almost linearly from over 3000 kg/ha to nil with later sowing.
- Taxon
- peanuts
Arachis hypogaeat0 - Treatment
- early sowingse0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- declinee0
- Value
- over 3000 kg/hae0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“There was an almost linear decline in yield from over 3000 kg/ha in the early sowings to nil in the last few sowings”
t0“peanuts”
Title
The influence of sowing date on the yield of peanuts in a short summer rainfall environment
WR Stern Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture and Animal Husbandry 1968. doi:10.1071/ea9680594
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Mean individual kernel weight remained about 0.39g for most of the season.
- Observation Available moisture at depth was considered adequate until mid-April.
- Association Mature-kernel pod count fell from 51 to 2 between first and 70th sowings.
- Observation Mature pod weight remained about 1.1g.
- Mechanism The authors suggested lower surface moisture and minimum temperature curtailed fruit maturation.