Evaluating the sustainability of different soil tillage practices using field measured electrical properties

Farkas, Csilla; Ristolainen, Antti; Tóth, Tibor; Koós, Sándor; László, Péter

doi:10.1556/crc.35.2007.2.53

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“…In other hand in the tillage practice there were beliefs or bad use in number those have had their time, such as deep and black stubble tillage, cloddy winter ploughing (to catch snow), deep summer ploughing (for soil disinfection by sun), and fi ne-aggregated seedbed for more crops (Birkás, 2006). During the last decades, these traditional goals were forced to change due to the deterioration of soil quality (Basic et al, 2002;Lipiec et al, 2003;Sabo et al, 2006;Farkas et al, 2007). While close correlation is found between soil quality deterioration and climatic harms (e.g.…”

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Cryopreservation of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) sperm in 1.2 and 5ml straws and occurrence of haploids among larvae produced with cryopreserved sperm

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SummaryIn Central Europe, the challenge in soil tillage throughout the last century can be characterized as a fi ght against extreme climatic and economic situations. From 1800s till the 1970s, the main requirement of soil tillage was to provide suitable soil conditions for plant growth (moreover with fi ne structure). Both climatic and economic diffi culties were benefi cial in establishing new tillage trends, however overestimation of the crop demands have presumably been promoted by the deterioration in soil quality. From the end of the 1990s, new requirements have also been introduced because of the rise in energy prices and because of the need to cut production costs. Th e reduced tillage in Central European region showed some advantages, e.g. less soil disturbance and traffi c however, that resulted in new soil condition defects (e.g. top-and subsoil compaction, structure degradation). Th e ideas of sustainability off ered a better solution that is to conserve soil resources and to protect the environment. A new problem, the global climate change, and the importance of the adaptability fasten to the original sustainable goals. In this paper the features of soil quality deteriorating tillage (conventional, over-reduced) are summarised, the steps of improvement are demonstrated, and factors aff ecting sustainable soil tillage are formulated.

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