Claim · model-written summary
Production costs for fallow-wheat averaged $141 per hectare across the three soil textures.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume1 - Outcome
- Production costse3
- Value
- $141 ha −1e3
- Qualifier
- for F–We3
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Verbatim
e1“the economic performance of hard red spring wheat (Triticium aestivum L.) or durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L.) production”
e3“Production costs were similar on the three soil textures, averaging $141 ha −1 for F–W and $224 ha −1 for Cont W”
Title
Economics of conservation tillage in the semiarid prairie
R. P. Zentner; B. G. McConkey; C. A. Campbell; et al. Canadian Journal of Plant Science 1996. doi:10.4141/cjps96-121
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Total costs for continuous wheat under no-tillage averaged 10 to 13% higher than under conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Total costs for fallow-wheat under no-tillage were 29% higher than under conventional tillage on silt loam.
- Intervention effect Total costs for fallow-wheat under no-tillage were 14% higher than under conventional tillage on heavy clay.
- Intervention effect Costs for fallow-wheat under no-tillage were 23% higher than under minimum tillage on silt loam.
- Intervention effect Costs for fallow-wheat under no-tillage were 12% higher than under minimum tillage on sandy loam.
- Intervention effect Costs for fallow-wheat under no-tillage were 17% higher than under minimum tillage on heavy clay.
- Intervention effect Greater herbicide expenditures under conservation tillage more than offset its labor, fuel and machinery savings compared with conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Conservation tillage provided savings in labor, fuel and oil, machine repair and machine overhead compared with conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect On silt loam, net returns were highest for continuous wheat under conventional tillage and lowest for fallow-wheat under no-tillage at wheat prices above $147 per tonne.
- Intervention effect On sandy loam, fallow-wheat under minimum tillage consistently earned the highest net return.
- Mechanism Poor economic performance of conservation tillage in monoculture wheat was due to higher input costs and no significant yield advantage under minimum or no-tillage.
- Observation There was little short-term economic incentive for producers to adopt no-tillage wheat management.
- Observation Production costs for continuous wheat averaged $224 per hectare across the three soil textures.