Using the long-term rotation experiment near Elora, ON (established 1980) to study the impacts of tillage and diversity of crop rotations on a number of agri-environmental factors.
Project Description:
Publications:
Corn and soybean yields and returns are greater in rotations with wheat
Crop rotations differ in soil carbon stabilization efficiency, but the response to quality of structural plant inputs is ambiguous
This study set out to evaluate crop rotation diversity, perenniality, carbon inputs, and carbon input quality as predictors of soil
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Crop rotation diversity improves yield resilience
Timothy Bowles, et al. 2020. Resilience to adverse growing conditions in North America. One Earth 2: 284-293. doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.02.007Study Summary by
Focus on continuous living cover, not adding more crops to rotation, to see soil carbon gains
Alison King, Katelyn Congreves, Bill Deen, Kari Dunfield, Myna Simpson, Paul Voroney, and Claudia Wagner-Riddle. 2020. Crop rotations differ in
Resources:
Crop Rotation Counts
Crop Rotation Counts: Key Findings from Long-Term Rotation Plot Research Celebrating 65 years of crop rotation research at the Elora
Place:
This project was conducted at Elora Crop Research Station
Funding Sources:
GFO, OMAFRA
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