Claim · model-written summary
The identified management practices gave corn silage yields equal to those in the cooler Georgia mountain region.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayst0 - Outcome
- corn silage yieldse0
- Direction
- equal toe0
- Comparator
- those produced in the cooler mountain region of Georgiae0
- Setting
- Atlantic Coastal Plaine0
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e0“management practices for the Atlantic Coastal Plain which resulted in corn silage yields equal to those produced in the cooler mountain region of Georgia”
t0“corn silage”
Title
Plant density, distribution, and fertilizer effects on yield and quality of irrigated corn silage
D. L. Karlen; C. R. Camp; J. P. Zublena Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 1985. doi:10.1080/00103628509367587
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Irrigated corn silage yielded 22 to 26 Mg ha‐1 at plant densities of 6.7 to 13.5 plants m‐2 at both sites.
- Intervention effect Stand densities of at least 9 in single 75 cm or twin rows gave the highest silage yields, with significant differences in only two of five site years.
- Intervention effect Increasing N-P-K beyond 200–30–167 kg ha”; slightly increased crude protein in 1980.
- Intervention effect Increasing N-P-K beyond 200–30–167 kg ha”; significantly increased crude protein in 1981 and 1982.
- Intervention effect Higher fertilization increased Mn and Zn concentrations in corn silage.
- Mechanism The authors attributed increased Mn and Zn in silage to nitrification lowering surface soil pH and increasing availability.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer program did not significantly influence dry matter yield, fiber, energy or other mineral nutrients.
- Observation The management practices exceeded average South Carolina corn silage production by approximately 40%.
- Observation Those yields were achieved without reducing apparent feed quality.