Effects of tillage, rotation and cover crop on the physical properties of a silt-loam soil

1. Crop rotation and fertilization were the main factors affecting soil physical properties and soil organic carbon. Within 4 years after the crop rotation started, all the sys -

The interaction of crops grown in rotation (spring barley – common peas – winter wheat) with tillage treatments also revealed a significant difference in soil moisture

In 2012, the University of Vermont Extension conducted the fourth year of an experiment to evaluate the impact of cover crop termination and reduced tillage strategies on

Relationship of field measured soil thermal conductivity with volumetric water content (A) and bulk density (B) across corn residue removal and winter rye cover crop treatments

However, the long-term adoption of cover crops increases SOC concentration in soil and improves soil water dynamics, which eventually improves crop production and soil

› In well-aerated cropland soil N 2 O emissions are mainly driven by inputs. of manure and

Our objectives were to: (i) evaluate the effect of timing of traffic and tillage on the infiltration rate of a sandy loam soil; (ii) de- termine the relationship between bulk

However, when looking within each cover crop treatment between years, several shifts in the microbial community structure occurred within each DNA type (bulk soil, rhizospheric soil,