Abstract
Abstract Corn ( Zea mays L.) grown under the no‐tillage system was compared with that grown under (1) systems involving increased amounts of tillage for 2 years, and (2) conventional turnplow tillage over a 6‐year period. Plant growth and yield of corn generally increased with decreasing degrees of tillage in the 2‐year test. Yields from no tillage during the 6‐year period were comparable to or ranged from 18 to 39% above yields from conventional turnplow tillage. Soil moisture measurements indicated that the dead sod mulch provided by the no‐tillage procedure was highly effective in reducing evaporation and runoff from the soil surface.
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Claims 3
Claim · model-written summary
Corn growth and yield generally rose as tillage decreased in the two-year test.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0 - Treatment
- decreasing degrees of tillagee0
- Outcome
- Plant growth and yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plant growth and yield of corn generally increased with decreasing degrees of tillage in the 2‐year test”
Claim · model-written summary
Six-year no-tillage yields were comparable to or 18 to 39% above conventional turnplow yields.
- Taxon
- CornZea mays subsp. mayst0
- Treatment
- no tillagee0
- Outcome
- Yieldse0
- Direction
- comparable to or ranged from 18 to 39% abovee0
- Value
- 18 to 39%e0
- Comparator
- conventional turnplow tillagee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Yields from no tillage during the 6‐year period were comparable to or ranged from 18 to 39% above yields from conventional turnplow tillage”
t0“Corn”
Claim · model-written summary
Dead sod mulch from no tillage reduced soil evaporation and runoff.
- Taxon
- CornZea mays subsp. mayst0
- Treatment
- dead sod mulch provided by the no‐tillage proceduree0
- Outcome
- evaporation and runoff from the soil surfacee0
- Direction
- reducinge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the dead sod mulch provided by the no‐tillage procedure was highly effective in reducing evaporation and runoff from the soil surface”
t0“Corn”
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