Claim · model-written summary
Soybean yields with annually alternating corn and soybean were 15% lower than yields of the first year after several years of the other crop.
- Taxon
- soybean
Glycine maxe2 - Treatment
- annually alternating corn and soybeane2
- Outcome
- yieldse2
- Direction
- lowere2
- Value
- 15%e2
- Comparator
- 1st yr of production following several years of the other crope2
- Setting
- near Arlington, WIe0
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Verbatim
e0“Field studies were conducted near Arlington, WI for 3 yr (1987–1989)”
e2“only soybean had 15% lower yields with annually alternating corn and soybean than for the 1st yr of production following several years of the other crop”
Title
Corn/Soybean Rotation Effect as Influenced by Tillage, Nitrogen, and Hybrid/Cultivar
B.G. Meese; P.R. Carter; E.S. Oplinger; et al. jpa 1991. doi:10.2134/jpa1991.0074
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- Intervention effect Corn yields declined with consecutive years of monocropping.
- Intervention effect Soybean yields declined with consecutive years of monocropping.
- Intervention effect For corn hybrid Pioneer 3737 under conventional tillage, the first-year yield benefit over continuous cropping was similar to soybean at about 15%.
- Intervention effect For soybean cultivar BSR 101 under conventional tillage, the first-year yield benefit over continuous cropping was similar to corn at about 15%.
- Intervention effect Corn hybrid DeKalb 524 under no-till yielded more than 25% higher in the first year of crop production.
- Intervention effect Susceptible soybean cultivar infected with brown stem rot yielded more than 25% higher in the first year of crop production under no-till.
- Intervention effect Average no-till yields of corn were similar to conventional tillage yields.
- Intervention effect Average no-till yields of soybean were similar to conventional tillage yields.
- Intervention effect Corn yields were usually lower under no-till with monocropping.
- Intervention effect Soybean yields were usually lower under no-till with monocropping.