No-tillage and high-residue practices reduce soil water evaporation

No-tillage and high-residue practices reduce soil water evaporation

Reducing tillage and maintaining crop residues on the soil surface could improve the water use efficiency of California crop production. In two field studies comparing no-tillage with standard tillage operations (following wheat silage harvest and before corn seeding), we estimated that 0.89 and 0.9...

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Main Authors: Jeffrey Mitchell, Purnendu N. Singh, Wesley Wallender, Daniel Munk, Jonathan Wroble, William Horwath, Philip Hogan, Robert Roy, Blaine Hanson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources 2012-04-01
Series:California Agriculture
Subjects:
agronomy
conservation tillage
crop management
crop production
irrigation and drainage
Plant Products
plant residues
Online Access:http://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?article=ca.v066n02p55

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