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chiseling, etc ; A horizons; DNA; Glycine max; Pseudomonas; Triticum aestivum; Zea mays; carbon; community structure; corn; fungi; genes; life history; microbial communities; no-tillage; plant communities; soil microorganisms; soil profiles; soybeans; wheat; Mid-Atlantic region; Show all 21 Subjects
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... Agriculture, by its intentional design, manipulates the ecological functions of soils. It does so by altering carbon and nutrient inputs; by controlling the plant community; and in the case of tillage, by physically disrupting and redistributing the soil within the soil profile. While there are many studies that contrast soil microbiomes across farming systems, few studies have examined the effect ...
chiseling, etc ; Podzols; Trifolium pratense; bioactive properties; forest steppe; hay; soil microorganisms; Ukraine; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The biological activity of the soil was studied according to the indicators of the number of microflora on the dark gray podzolic soil of the western Forest-Steppe of Ukraine. The influence of the methods of tillage on the course of biological processes under Trifolium pratense is clarified. The relationship between the quantitative characteristics of the microbial grouping of soil agrocenosis of ...
chiseling, etc ; Chernozems; crop rotation; humus; nutrition; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Field experiments were carried out in the Rostov region on the slope of ordinary chernozems in the system of contour-strip organization of the territory in 2011-2020. The aim of the research was the development of agrotechnical methods (design of crop rotation, the method of basic tillage and the background of fertilizers), which ensure high productivity of crop rotations on the eroded slope of or ...
... Increased agricultural management intensity is known to degrade soil food web structure and function, however, the impact of 50+ years of contrasting agricultural management practices on soil food webs is largely unknown. The relationship between soil food web structure and sensitive soil health indicators has seldom been quantified in row crop agricultural systems in the Midwest, USA. This study ...
chiseling, etc ; Archaea; ammonia; community structure; corn; crop rotation; edaphic factors; indicator species; long term effects; metagenomics; no-tillage; pH; soil microorganisms; soil organic matter; soil quality; soybeans; Show all 16 Subjects
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... Recent advancements in agricultural metagenomics allow for characterizing microbial indicators of soil health brought on by changes in management decisions, which ultimately affect the soil environment. Field-scale studies investigating the microbial taxa from agricultural experiments are sparse, with none investigating the long-term effect of crop rotation and tillage on microbial indicator speci ...
... Fertilized agricultural soils can be a major source of soil nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions to the atmosphere. Conservative soil management may have the ability to reduce N₂O emissions through affecting a number of N-cycling-related soil biophysical properties. Using in situ N₂O measurements combined with the techniques of quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), amplicon sequencing, and metag ...
... Growing concerns for food security and alleviation of hunger necessitate knowledge-based crop management technologies for sustainable crop production. In this study 13 winter bread wheat genotypes (old, relatively old, modern, and breeding lines) were evaluated under three different tillage systems, i.e., conventional tillage (CT; full tillage with residue removed), reduced tillage (RT; chisel til ...
... Long-term cover-cropping and no-tillage practices can facilitate soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation in agroecosystems for soil health and climate mitigation benefits. However, the contribution of these conservation management practices to SOC gain from the subsoil layers is not extensively studied. To understand this knowledge gap, it is essential to determine the distribution of total SOC and ...
... Much of the global nitrous oxide emissions are derived from agricultural management driving microbial N transformations. Crop rotation, no-till, and cover cropping are feasible conservation agronomic strategies used to prevent N losses to the environment, though their effect on soil microbial N cycling at the field scale remains relatively unknown. Our goal was to determine the effect of crop rota ...
... No-till in continuous corn (Zea mays L.) production helps to keep an important volume of residues on the soil surface, creating management challenges that could be alleviated by residue removal for bioenergy or animal use. Crop residues, however, are essential to stimulate microbial nutrient cycling in agroecosystems. Thus, both residue removal and tillage options need to be fully evaluated for th ...
chiseling, etc ; burning; conservation tillage; corn; crop residues; crop yield; fertilizers; nitrogen; nitrogen content; semiarid zones; soil properties; total organic carbon; Iran; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Conservation tillage systems and residue management as well as nitrogen application are the effective factors on soil properties and crop yield. This study investigated the influence of these factors on the soil properties and winter wheat yield in the warm, semi-arid region of Jahrom, in south of Iran. The variables were residue management, i.e. keeping (R1) and burning (R2) previous corn residue ...
... Prolific growth of weeds, especially when followed by abundant rainfall, is common in Texas farmlands during early winter and progresses into spring when farmers begin chiseling and disking operations for spring-seeded cropping. This research sought to develop aerial application technologies designed to control unwanted vegetation in croplands left fallow until spring. The aerial nozzles used in t ...
... Cover crops (CCs) are considered one of the few agronomic strategies to help reduce environmental pollution, while improving soil properties. However, the use of tillage could negate those benefits entirely. Therefore, the goal of this study was to monitor soil properties and cash crop yields from five different CC rotations compared to fallow controls throughout Illinois. A split‐block arrangemen ...
chiseling, etc ; Saccharum; conventional tillage; crop yield; energy crops; growing season; mechanical properties; mechanization; minimum tillage; no-tillage; seasonal variation; site preparation; soil sampling; soil structure; subtropics; sugarcane; Brazil; Show all 17 Subjects
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... Sugarcane is one of the important energy crops grown globally. Despite the increased sugarcane productivity, the mechanization of sugarcane production has caused the modification of soil structure in different scales. A field study was therefore conducted for three growing seasons (2010 - 2013) to evaluate seasonal changes of soil physico-chemical and mechanical properties and crop yield under dif ...
chiseling, etc ; ammonium; conservation buffers; corn; corn silage; cover crops; dairy manure; liquids; manure spreading; nitrates; nitrogen; reactive phosphorus; runoff; rye; sediments; soil; spring; total nitrogen; total phosphorus; watersheds; Wisconsin; Show all 21 Subjects
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... Best management practices (BMPs) can mitigate erosion and nutrient runoff. We evaluated runoff losses for silage corn management systems using paired watershed fields in central Wisconsin. A two-year calibration period of fall-applied liquid dairy manure incorporated with chisel plow tillage (FMT) was followed by a three and a half-year treatment period. During the treatment period FMT was continu ...
chiseling, etc ; Argiudolls; cluster analysis; models; no-tillage; soil compaction; soil penetration resistance; soil water; soil water content; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The effect of tillage on soil properties varies within field due to spatial variability of soils. Mapping changes of soil penetration resistance (PR) would be useful to understand and assess tillage practices to alleviate soil compaction. The objectives were to model the short-term effect of tillage on PR and its spatial structure, and to delineate homogeneous zones based on soil response in a Typ ...
... Metagenomics in agricultural research allows for searching for bioindicators of soil health to characterize changes caused by management practices. Cover cropping (CC) improves soil health by mitigating nutrient losses, yet the benefits depend on the tillage system used. Field studies searching for indicator taxa within these systems are scarce and narrow in their scope. Our goal was to identify b ...
... Dipodomys microps, the chisel-toothed kangaroo rat, is heralded as one of few mammalian herbivores capable of dietary specialization. Throughout its range, the diet of D. microps is thought to consist primarily of Atriplex confertifolia (saltbush), a C4 plant, and sparing amounts of C3 plants. Using stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen as natural diet tracers, we asked whet ...
... The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of controlled traffic farming (CTF) with respect to soil physical properties and crop yield for Swedish conditions. Three field trials were conducted for six growing seasons in central and southern Sweden. In two of the trials, we compared CTF with random traffic farming (RTF) in deep chiseling (DC, 15–20 cm), shallow cultivation (SC, 5–10 cm ...
chiseling, etc ; cutting; drilling; manufacturing; paleoecology; wastes; Poland; Show all 7 Subjects
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... In 2003 a rich Early Mesolithic peat bog site was discover in Western Poland and subsequent interdisciplinary project let to recognise the site as one of the richest North European Plain occupation from the point of view of the organic materials it delivered. A set of technological and typological analyses of find material, supplemented by palaeoenvironmental studies and almost 50 AMS radiocarbon ...