Research into and development of integrated farming systems for less-intensive arable crop production: experimental progress (1989–1994) and commercial implementation

Jordan, V. W. L.; Hutcheon, J. A.; Donaldson, G.; Farmer, Douglas

doi:10.1016/s0167-8809(97)00032-7

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“…With the proposed EU Soil Directive, the Soil Action Plan for England and its proposed successor the Soil Strategy (Defra 2004(Defra , 2008; the soil management compliance conditions required for receipt of the Single Farm Payment under the CAP; the implementation of EU's Nitrates and Water Framework Directives which aim to reduce agriculture's impact on water quality; and the emerging interest in soil's role in carbon sequestration, soil protection has risen on the policy agenda. As such, reduced tillage, which potentially reduces the effects of erosion, provides benefits to wildlife, mitigates the effect of agriculture on water quality and provides a sink for carbon has potential to meet a number of policy challenges (Jordan et al 1997(Jordan et al , 2000Freibauer et al 2004). It is the pressure to reduce production costs by optimising labour and machinery use in cereal establishment, however, that is driving a move away from traditional plough-based cultivation in Europe.…”

Section: Reduced Tillagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, by 1988 the area grown had fallen to about one tenth due to loss of yield caused by increases in grass weed populations, the expense of, and resistance to herbicides, topsoil compaction and the need to incorporate straw because of restrictions on burning (Davies and Finney 2002). Interest was renewed in the 1990s when results from research conducted as part of the Less-Intensive Farming and the Environment (LIFE) project showed that, compared with ploughing, reduced tillage substantially decreased sediment loss in run off, total and soluble phosphorus (P) losses, and isoproturon loss in drainage; resulted in larger numbers of earthworms than the conventional system and had comparable yields to ploughed plots while the cost of crop establishment was reduced by one third (Jordan et al 1997(Jordan et al , 2000.…”

Section: Emergence Of Reduced Tillagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The system offers the potential to improve soil structure, reduce erosion and water quality impacts and enhance wildlife (Jordan et al 1997;. At the same time reduced cultivations use less fuel and labour and thus offer reductions in crop establishment costs.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Technical and Social Dimensions of Farmer Learning: An Analysis of the Emergence of Reduced Tillage Systems in England

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2010

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture

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Technical and Social Dimensions of Farmer Learning: An Analysis of the Emergence of Reduced Tillage Systems in England

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2010

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture

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“…Organic farming systems improve nutrient cycling and provide environmental benefits, including improved soil quality (Stockdale et al 2001). Other "low-input" systems such as integrated farming systems also provide environmental benefits through reductions in pesticide, fertiliser and tillage inputs to match site and crop requirements (Jordan et al 1997).…”

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The role of crop rotations in determining soil structure and crop growth conditions

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Can. J. Soil. Sci.

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. 2005. The role of crop rotations in determining soil structure and crop growth conditions. Can. J. Soil Sci. 85: 557-577. Increasing concern about the need to provide high-quality food with minimum environmental impact has led to a new interest in crop rotations as a tool to maintain sustainable crop production. We review the role of rotations in the development and preservation of soil structure. After first introducing the types of rotations in current practice and their impact on yield, we assess how soil and crop management in rotations determines soil structure, and in turn how soil structure influences crop growth and yield. We also briefly consider how soil structure might contribute to other beneficial effects of rotations, namely nutrient cycling and disease suppression. Emphasis is given to the influence of crop choice and, where relevant, interaction with tillage system and avoidance of compaction in the improvement and maintenance of soil structure. Crop rotations profoundly modify the soil environment. The sequence of crops in rotation not only influences the removal of nutrients from a soil, but also the return of crop residues, the development and distribution of biopores and the dynamics of microbial communities. These processes contribute to the development of soil structure. We have identified areas where further research is needed to enable the potential benefits of rotations in the management of soil structure to be fully exploited. These include: improved quantitative linkages between soil structure and crop growth, the consequences to soil structure and nutrient cycling of crop residue incorporation, developing natural disease suppression, amelioration of subsoils by crop roots, the fate of carbon deposited by plant roots in soil and the fate of organic nitrogen in soil. Les auteurs passent en revue le rôle de l'assolement dans l'évolution et la préser-vation de la structure du sol. Après avoir présenté les diverses méthodes d'assolement en usage et leur incidence sur le rendement, ils expliquent comment la gestion du sol et des productions végétales durant la rotation affecte la structure du sol et comment cette dernière agit sur la croissance et le rendement des plantes. Les auteurs examinent aussi brièvement la manière dont la structure du sol pourrait contribuer autrement aux effets bénéfiques de l'assolement, notamment dans le cycle des éléments nutritifs et la lutte contre la maladie. Ils insistent sur l'incidence du choix de la culture et, quand la chose est pertinente, sur l'interaction avec le système de travail du sol et la nécessité d'éviter le compactage si l'on veut améliorer ou préserver la structure du sol. L'assolement modifie considérablement l'environnement tellurique. Les cultures qui se succèdent lors de la rotation n'influent pas seulement sur le retrait des éléments nutritifs dans le sol, mais aussi sur la réintégration des débris végétaux, sur le développement et la réparti-tion des biopores et sur la dynamique de la microflore. Ces processus concourent au développe...

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“…Proportion of cereals (small grains and maize) takes about 70% of Hungarian arable land. In sustainable cereal production nutrient supply, fertilization is a key agrotechnical element (Jordan et al 1997, Oehl et al 2004, Keller et al 2012, but the crop rotation, irrigation, plant density, weed control (Berzsenyi et al 2000, Vad et al 2007) have important role, too. The yield-losses and yield fluctuation of cereals caused by crop year (climate change) depended on soil conditions, the stress-tolerance of genotypes and the agrotechniques.…”

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Role of agrotechnical elements in sustainable wheat and maize production

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2017

Columella

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In conventional crop production the yield increasing was based on the huge industrial chemical inputs and new genotypes of cereals. This extreme external input use could modified the resilience, adaptive capacity and sustainability of different crop models. The effects of different crop management factors were studied in long- term experiments on chernozem soil in Eastern Hungary. The fertilizer responses of wheat varieties depended on the crop year (6.5-8.2 t ha-1 in 2011-2014 years) and the genotype (in 2012 the difference was 2.7 t ha-1 among genotypes). The optimum N(+PK) dose varied between 30-150 kg ha-1 in different crop years. The N-doses over optimum caused NO3-N accumulation in chernozem soil (from 32 mg kg-1 to 170 mg kg-1 ). In sustainable maize production the fertilization resulted high yield surpluses in average (2.0-4.1 t ha-1) and rainy (2.1-5.4 t ha-1) crop year in our long-term experiment (in 1986-2014 years). The yield increasing of irrigation were agronomically effective only in dry crop years (3.3-4.9 t ha-1) and they were very limited in average (1.2-1.3 t ha-1) and rainy (0-0.2 t ha-1) crop year (in 1986-2014 years) The optimum fertilization could improve WUE in maize production.

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Research into and development of integrated farming systems for less-intensive arable crop production: experimental progress (1989–1994) and commercial implementation

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Technical and Social Dimensions of Farmer Learning: An Analysis of the Emergence of Reduced Tillage Systems in England

Technical and Social Dimensions of Farmer Learning: An Analysis of the Emergence of Reduced Tillage Systems in England

The role of crop rotations in determining soil structure and crop growth conditions

Role of agrotechnical elements in sustainable wheat and maize production

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