The effects of rotating conservation tillage with conventional tillage on soil properties and grain yields in winter wheat-spring maize rotations

Abstract Intensive tillage in conventional tillage systems reinforces water stress effects on crop growth, limiting yields from dryland agriculture. Conservation tillage can reduce soil evaporation and conserve more soil water in fields, but long-term, mono-conservation tillage may lead to low crop yields. The rotation of conventional tillage with conservation tillage may offset some of the defects generated by the mono-tillage practices of either conventional or conservation tillage, improve crop yields and provide better soil conditions. A long-term tillage rotation experiment (2007–2016) was established to assess the effects of rotating conservation tillage with conventional tillage on soil water and crop productivity in a winter wheat-spring maize rotation field in Heyang County, Shaanxi Province, a typical semi-arid region of the Loess Plateau, China. Four tillage treatments were applied over ten years, as follows: ST/CT (subsoiling was performed during the first year then rotated with conventional tillage in the second year), CT/NT (conventional tillage during the first year and then rotated with no-tillage in the second year), NT (no tillage applied in any year) and CT (conventional tillage applied annually). Compared with CT and NT, the CT/NT rotation significantly decreased the soil bulk density and increased the soil porosity in the 0–60 cm soil layer after ten years (P

• Publication year

  2018

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  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

• Publication date

  2018-12-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.AGRFORMET.2018.08.012
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