Claim · model-written summary
Three years of mulch reduced penetration resistance by up to 28% versus bare plots.
- Treatment
- 3-year mulch applicatione0
- Outcome
- Penetration resistance (PR)e0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- 28%e0
- Comparator
- bare plotse0
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Verbatim
e0“Penetration resistance (PR) decreased under 3-year mulch application in all tillage systems, with a reduction of up to 28% compared to bare plots”
Title
Optimizing Tillage and Straw Management for Improved Soil Physical Properties and Yield
Luka Brezinscak; Igor Bogunovic Land 2025. doi:10.3390/land14020376
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- Intervention effect Mulched MT had 52.4% water-holding capacity versus 41.6% for bare CT.
- Intervention effect Mulch increased aggregate stability by 15–20%.
- Intervention effect Mulched MT gave the highest aggregate stability.
- Intervention effect Soil organic matter reached 4.5% in mulched MT versus 3.6% in bare CT in 2021.
- Intervention effect Soybean yield was unaffected by tillage treatment.
- Intervention effect Mulch in MT increased soybean yield by 21%.
- Intervention effect Maize yield was highest in RT without mulch at 13.95 t/ha.
- Intervention effect Mulched MT increased spring wheat yield to 3.83 t/ha versus 1.75 t/ha for bare plots.