Claim · model-written summary
All intercrops produced 8 to 17% more total protein per hectare than corn monoculture.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0 - Treatment
- intercropse0
- Outcome
- total protein ha− 1e0
- Direction
- moree0
- Value
- 8 to 17%e0
- Comparator
- corn monoculturee0
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Verbatim
e0“All intercrops produced 8 to 17% more total protein ha− 1 than corn monoculture”
Title
Forage Yield of Intercropped Corn and Soybean in Various Planting Patterns1
S. J. Herbert; D. H. Putnam; M. I. Poos‐Floyd; et al. Agronomy Journal 1984. doi:10.2134/agronj1984.00021962007600040001x
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect In the 1st year all but one intercrop planting pattern produced dry matter yields similar to corn monoculture, even when half the corn rows were replaced with soybean.
- Intervention effect In 1981 all intercrop planting patterns produced dry matter yields similar to corn monoculture.
- Intervention effect In 1982 intercrop dry matter yields were significantly lower than corn monoculture yields.
- Intervention effect Dry matter yield per row of intercropped soybeans was 6 to 32% less than per row of monoculture soybeans.
- Intervention effect Dry matter yield per row of intercropped corn increased 21 to 53% compared with monoculture corn, compensating for the reduced soybean yield.
- Intervention effect All intercrop patterns produced more dry matter than would be obtained from monocultures at the same yield ratio as in the intercrop.
- Intervention effect Protein concentration rose from 69-81 g kg-1 in corn monoculture to 88-108 g kg-1 in the various intercropping patterns.
- Intervention effect The pattern where alternate corn rows were replaced by soybean rows produced the largest increases in protein concentration.
- Intervention effect In the alternate-row intercrop pattern, dry matter yield was reduced by 14% in the 3rd year.