Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Across 16 years, long-term no tillage sorghum yield exceeded short-term no tillage by 70%.

A claim from Tillage Intensity in a Long-Term Wheat-Sorghum-Fallow Rotation · 2017

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Across 16 years, long-term no tillage sorghum yield exceeded short-term no tillage by 70%.

Taxon
sorghumSorghume0
Treatment
long-term NTe0
Outcome
sorghum yieldse0
Direction
greatere0
Value
70%e0
Qualifier
68 vs. 40 bu/ae0
Comparator
short-term NTe0

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Sorghum
Sorghum · Taxon · picture of the genus (one of its species)Evelyn Simak · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“Averaged across the past 16 years, sorghum yields with long-term NT have been 70% greater than with short-term NT (68 vs. 40 bu/a)”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 914–1044

Title

Tillage Intensity in a Long-Term Wheat-Sorghum-Fallow Rotation

A. Schlegel Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports 2017. doi:10.4148/2378-5977.7391

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tillage · yield · SorghumResults differ

123 papers: 102 positive, 21 negative or no effect

101 papers in the same direction as this claim · 17 in the opposite direction · 4 reporting no difference from an alternative

  1. negative
    Sorghum grain yields declined with each increase in tillage intensity in the second rotation cycle (NT > MT > CT).

    Cropping Frequencies to Sustain Long‐Term Conservation Tillage Systems · 1990

    Opposite direction

  2. negative
    Flat bed planting produced the lowest grain yields except on unfertilized Entisols.

    Grain Yield Response of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) to Tied Ridges and Planting Methods on Entisols and Vertisols of Alemaya Area, Eastern Ethiopian Highlands · 2003

    Opposite direction

  3. negative
    With adequate moisture, zero-tillage depressed yields by up to 40% compared with conventional practice.

    No-tillage as compared to tillage practices in dry-land farming of a semi-arid climate. · 1970 · compared with conventional practice

    Opposite direction

  4. no effect
    Tillage or variety did not significantly influence sorghum grain yield.

    Factoring labour when comparing in situ rainwater harvesting technologies for semi-arid areas of central Tanzania · 2023

    Opposite direction

  5. negative
    Preplanting compaction significantly reduced sorghum yields.

    Response of Grain Sorghum to Seedbed Compaction1 · 1966

    Opposite direction

  6. negative
    Annualized production cost was 11%–32% greater for forage sorghum dominated no-till systems than T‐S‐O.

    Nutritive value and net return of forage crop rotations in the central Great Plains · 2023 · compared with T‐S‐O

    Opposite direction

  7. no effect
    Sorghum yield was not reduced by tillage delayed 10 days.

    Influence of Weed Growth and Tillage Interval During Fallow on Water Storage, Soil Nitrates, and Yield · 1979

    Opposite direction

  8. negative
    Sorghum yield averaged 22% lower under no till than under conventional or reduced tillage.

    Twenty Years of Grain Sorghum and Soybean Yield Response to Tillage and N Fertilization of a Claypan Soil · 2017 · compared with conventional or reduced tillage

    Opposite direction

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