Soil Health Gap: A concept to establish a benchmark for soil health management

Maharjan, Bijesh; Das, Saurav; Acharya, Bibek

doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01116

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“…The data obtained in world agricultural practice is consistent with the findings of this research [16]. The lack of chemicals and fertilizers, called intensification methods, contributes to lower yields [17]. The latter may be increased rapidly only in the case of the application of intensifying means.…”

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Effect of Tillage and Crop Rotation on Cereal Crops Yield in the Urals of the Nonblack Earth Zone of Russia

Корепанова¹,

Fatykhov²,

Исламова³

et al. 2021

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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Proper selection of tillage system is important to increase yields. The work purpose is to assess the effectiveness of three different crop rotation and tillage systems combined with the chemistries use and repetitive sowing methods on spring wheat productive capacity and technology properties of its grains under natural conditions of the Urals in the nonblack earth zone of Russia. The study's objectives included studying the effectiveness of tillage systems in the region's conditions, evaluating the need for the use of chemicals, assessing the impact of each of the factors: meteorological conditions, soil fertility, agrotechnology, and intensification methods on wheat yield indicators. A comprehensive approach is used throughout this work. The study was carried out in 2006-2019 in the forest-steppe region of the Southern Urals (Ural Federal District of the Russian Federation). An experiment involving three influencing factors was performed: Factor 1 -the tillage system in crop rotation; Factor 2 -the chemical methods use; Factor 3 -the preceding crop presence. An inverse relationship was found between spring wheat productivity and weed share (Pearson correlation -0.83). There was a negative correlation between the distance from fallow to the plants' proportion affected by fungal rot. Their number has multiplied by more than 1.7. Depending on the preceding crop, the average yield for fallow wheat was 2.94 t per 1 ha, and for the third wheat after fallow, 1.44 t per 1 ha. The study bridged the lack of knowledge in the established task of increasing wheat yields in the Urals steppe forest territories. The three most important factors influencing wheat grain yield and quality are: 1) combined use of chemicals and fertilizers (45% contribution), availability of the forecrop, meteorological and climatic conditions, and tillage system. Consequently, the yield of spring wheat is related to the level of modern agricultural technologies development, particularly on the level of intensification required. Future similar studies should create a unified spring wheat database and allow the ability to adjust performance indicators depending on areas with different climatic conditions.

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Effect of Tillage and Crop Rotation on Cereal Crops Yield in the Urals of the Nonblack Earth Zone of Russia

Корепанова¹,

Fatykhov²,

Исламова³

et al. 2021

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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“…This concept is evolving in soil science research and in the development of soil health concepts. At the Soil Heath Institute, we use a concept called Soil Health Targets while others have written of the Soil Health Gap (Maharjan et al., 2020) and still others have developed probability distribution functions to describe the continuum of soil health expected (Nunes et al., 2021). All of these concepts recognize that we should be evaluating soil health among soils with similar soil health potential and there is a theoretical “reference state” that represents ideal metrics for soil health for each grouping of soils with similar soil health potential.…”

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Assessing Soil Health: Putting It All Together

Morgan¹,

Cappellazzi²

2021

Crops & Soils

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The following article is the last in a six-part series on assessing soil health. It synthesizes measurement information and provides an example of how a minimal set of soil health measurements can reflect multiple aspects of soil functioning. It is part of a larger Soil Science Society of America webinar series produced in partnership with The Soil Health Institute and sponsored by The Walton Family Foundation. Earn 0.5 CEUs in Soil & Water Management by reading the article and taking the quiz at www.certifiedcropadviser.org/ education/classroom/classes/1010.

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“…This concept is evolving in soil science research and in the development of soil health concepts. At the Soil Heath Institute, we use a concept called Soil Health Targets while others have written of the Soil Health Gap (Maharjan et al, 2020) and still others have developed probability distribution functions to describe the continuum of soil health expected (Nunes et al, 2021). All of these concepts recognize that we should be evaluating soil health among soils with similar soil health potential and there is a theoretical "reference state" that represents ideal metrics for soil health for each grouping of soils with similar soil health potential.…”

Section: Usefulness Of Assessing Soil Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Soil Health Gap: A concept to establish a benchmark for soil health management

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Effect of Tillage and Crop Rotation on Cereal Crops Yield in the Urals of the Nonblack Earth Zone of Russia

Effect of Tillage and Crop Rotation on Cereal Crops Yield in the Urals of the Nonblack Earth Zone of Russia

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