Claim · model-written summary
Grazing increased soil bulk density relative to ungrazed plots.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse1 - Treatment
- grazinge0
- Outcome
- soil bulk density (BD)e0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- ungrazinge0
- Setting
- South Dakotae1
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Verbatim
e0“the grazing increased soil bulk density (BD) and decreased soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil water retention (SWR) compared with the ungrazing”
e1“under a corn (Zea mays L.)-soybean (Glycine max L.)-rye (Secale cereale L.) rotation in South Dakota”
Title
Colin Tobin; Shikha Singh; Sandeep Kumar; et al. Open Journal of Soil Science 2020. doi:10.4236/ojss.2020.103006
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Grazing decreased soil organic carbon relative to ungrazed plots.
- Intervention effect Grazing decreased soil water retention relative to ungrazed plots.
- Intervention effect Grazing had no significant effect on corn yield.
- Intervention effect Cover crops did not affect soil pH, electrical conductivity or total nitrogen.
- Intervention effect Cover crops did not affect β-glucosidase, acid hydrolysis carbon fraction or microbial biomass carbon.
- Intervention effect Cover crops did not affect soil water retention.
- Intervention effect Cover crops affected soil organic carbon and hot/cold water carbon fractions in some phases and depths.
- Intervention effect Cover crops affected soil bulk density and infiltration rate in some phases and depths.
- Intervention effect Effects of cover crop blends on corn yield were weak.
- Intervention effect ICLS increased farm profit by $17.23 ac−1 in the first year.
- Intervention effect ICLS increased farm profit by $43.61 ac−1 in the second year.