Claim · model-written summary
Planting alfalfa with corn and harvesting corn as silage increased alfalfa stand by 27%.
- Taxon
- Alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Treatment
- alfalfa was planted simultaneously with the corn and the corn harvested as silagee0
- Interactor
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0other - Outcome
- Alfalfa stande0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 27e0
- Comparator
- alfalfa planted at last cultivation or following silage harveste1
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Verbatim
e0“Alfalfa stand and yield were increased 27 and 9%, respectively, when alfalfa was planted simultaneously with the corn and the corn harvested as silage”
e1“compared to alfalfa planted at last cultivation or following silage harvest”
Title
Establishment Methods for Alfalfa in Irrigated Corn1
P. T. Nordquist; G. A. Wicks Agronomy Journal 1974. doi:10.2134/agronj1974.00021962006600030012x
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect The same planting method increased alfalfa yield by 9%.
- Intervention effect The simultaneous planting method reduced corn silage production by 20 to nearly 50%.
- Intervention effect The simultaneous planting method reduced corn grain yields by 1,000 to 3,000 kg/ha.
- Observation Brachytic dwarf corn was generally a poor competitor to alfalfa.
- Observation Full-season and midseason corn hybrids had about the same silage yields.
- Observation The full-season hybrid produced more corn than the midseason hybrid.
- Recommendation A midseason corn hybrid at 59,000 seeds/ ha with simultaneous alfalfa planting and silage harvest was judged an excellent establishment method.
- Observation That combination gave high silage yields.
- Intervention effect Removing corn permitted good fall growth of alfalfa.