Claim · model-written summary
Reduced tillage tended toward lower yield in later years.
- Treatment
- tillage reductione0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Qualifier
- in the later experimental yearse0
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Verbatim
e0“The tillage reduction showed a trend to lower yield but higher soil C in the later experimental years.”
t0“maize”
Title
Genís Simon-Miquel; John Kirkegaard; Moritz Reckling Field Crops Research 2025. doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2025.109866
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- Intervention effect Continuous maize systems had the highest energy and methane yields.
- Intervention effect Diverse crop rotation had the highest protein yields.
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased yields by 8–125 % at rainfall below 400 mm pa.
- Intervention effect Reduced tillage tended toward higher soil carbon in later years.
- Association The most productive systems also had high resource use efficiency.
- Association Diversifying continuous maize systems showed a productivity and sustainability trade-off.
- Association Higher productivity coincided with soil quality decline over time.
- Intervention effect Continuous rainfed, ploughed maize had the highest energetic output and water use efficiency.
- Intervention effect Systems with perennial forage increased protein output.
- Intervention effect Systems with perennial forage maintained soil quality.
- Recommendation The authors propose a maize and perennial legume forage system with 400 mm pa target water supply and strategic tillage for long-term productivity and sustainability.