Claim · model-written summary
Tilled grain sorghum was the least profitable system, at −$42 per ha per year.
- Treatment
- tilled (TL)e0
- Outcome
- profitablee4
- Direction
- leaste4
- Value
- –$42 ha −1 yr −1e4
- Comparator
- no‐till (NT)e0
SorghumNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“two production systems, no‐till (NT) and tilled (TL)”
e4“Tilled grain sorghum was the least profitable system (–$42 ha −1 yr −1 )”
Title
Economics of No‐Till Versus Tilled Dryland Cotton, Grain Sorghum, and Wheat
Brandon T. Varner; Francis M. Epplin; Gary L. Strickland Agronomy Journal 2011. doi:10.2134/agronj2011.0063
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Wheat yield was not different between no-till and tilled systems.
- Intervention effect Cotton yield was not different between no-till and tilled systems.
- Intervention effect No-till sorghum yielded significantly more than tilled sorghum.
- Intervention effect No-till wheat produced the greatest expected net return, at $217 per ha per year.
- Intervention effect No-till wheat net returns were slightly greater than tilled wheat, at $18 per ha per year.
- Intervention effect No-till wheat required additional herbicide expenditure of $15 per ha per year.
- Intervention effect No-till wheat had $22 per ha per year less machinery fuel, lube and repair cost.
- Intervention effect No-till wheat had $23 per ha per year less machinery fixed cost.
- Observation Switching from tilled to no-till wheat saved 0.588 hours of machinery labor per hectare.
- Observation No-till wheat yields were more variable.
- Recommendation Tilled wheat may be preferred by risk-averse producers.