Claim · model-written summary
Mechanical weed management gave less corn net return under moldboard plow.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse3 - Treatment
- Mechanical weed managemente3
- Outcome
- net returnse3
- Direction
- lesse3
- Value
- $302 ha −1e3
- Setting
- moldboard plowe3
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“Mechanical weed management had less net returns in moldboard plow ($302 ha −1) and chisel tillage ($121 ha −1) because of 15% lesser corn densities and greater weed densities”
Title
Agronomics and Economics of Different Weed Management Systems in Corn and Soybean
William J. Cox; J. S. Singer; E. J. Shields; et al. Agronomy Journal 1999. doi:10.2134/agronj1999.914585x
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Chemical and chemical-mechanical weed management had similar corn net returns under moldboard plow.
- Intervention effect Chemical and chemical-mechanical weed management had similar corn net returns under chisel tillage.
- Intervention effect Mechanical weed management gave less corn net return under chisel tillage.
- Intervention effect Mechanical weed management reduced corn density by 15% under both tillage systems.
- Intervention effect Mechanical weed management produced greater weed densities in corn.
- Intervention effect In soybean under moldboard plow, mechanical weed management had similar weed density.
- Intervention effect In soybean under moldboard plow, mechanical weed management gave lower yield.
- Intervention effect In soybean under moldboard plow, mechanical weed management had similar net returns.
- Intervention effect In soybean under chisel tillage, mechanical weed management had greater weed density.
- Intervention effect In soybean under chisel tillage, mechanical weed management gave lower yield.
- Intervention effect In soybean under chisel tillage, mechanical weed management gave lower net returns.
- Recommendation Corn and soybean growers can adopt chemical-mechanical weed management and maintain net returns.
- Recommendation Soybean growers under moldboard plow tillage can adopt mechanical weed management and maintain net returns.