Claim · model-written summary
Combined rolling, spraying and planting could reduce CO2 emissions and labor hours by up to 51%.
- Taxon
- cotton
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- rolling and spraying combined with plantinge0
- Outcome
- CO 2 emissions from fuel use and labor hourse0
- Direction
- reducee0
- Value
- up to 51%e0
- Comparator
- three separate operationse0
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Verbatim
e0“Converting from three separate operations for cover crop termination and cotton planting to rolling and spraying combined with planting, producers could potentially reduce CO 2 emissions from fuel use and labor hours associated with cover crop termination and cotton planting by up to 51%”
Title
Leah M. Duzy; Ted S. Kornecki Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 2017. doi:10.1017/s1742170517000631
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Cotton populations were lowest in 2011.
- Observation Year did not affect seed cotton yields, total costs or net returns.
- Intervention effect Rolling with or without spraying raised cotton populations by 26% versus planting into standing rye.
- Intervention effect Rolling with or without spraying raised seed cotton yield by 18.3%.
- Intervention effect Rolling with or without spraying raised net returns by 17.2%.
- Intervention effect Rolling with or without spraying raised costs by 23.8%.
- Intervention effect Rolling with spraying had 6.5% higher costs than rolling alone.
- Intervention effect Rolling with spraying raised populations by 11.42% versus rolling alone.
- Intervention effect Rolling with spraying raised seed cotton yield by 6.4%.
- Intervention effect Rolling with spraying raised net returns by 6.5%.