Claim · model-written summary
Spring-kill no-till corn had higher residue cover after planting (72%) than current tillage.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0 - Treatment
- spring‐kill NTe1
- Outcome
- Residue covere1
- Direction
- higherinferrede1
- Value
- 72%e1
- Comparator
- CTe1
- Setting
- six farms in 1988 and 1989e5
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“No‐till (NT) corn ( Zea mays L.)”
e1“Residue cover averaged 13, 53, and 72% for CT, fall‐kill NT, and spring‐kill NT, respectively”
e5“Farmer‐managed comparisons were made in field‐sized, replicated strip tests on silt loam soils on six farms in 1988 and 1989”
Title
No‐Till Systems for Corn following Hay or Pasture
M. A. Smith; P. R. Carter jpa 1993. doi:10.2134/jpa1993.0046
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Fall-kill no-till corn had higher residue cover after planting (53%) than current tillage.
- Intervention effect Spring-kill no-till reduced corn plant populations at three of six farms compared with current tillage and fall-kill no-till.
- Intervention effect Spring-kill no-till corn had 3% higher average grain moisture than current tillage and fall-kill no-till.
- Intervention effect Fall-kill no-till corn yields were equal to or higher than current tillage and spring-kill no-till at all farms.
- Intervention effect Production cost per bushel was lowest for fall-kill no-till corn, intermediate for current tillage, averaged over all farms.
- Intervention effect Production cost per bushel was highest for spring-kill no-till corn, averaged over all farms.