Conservation tillage and soil health: Lessons from a 5-year UK farm trial (2013–2018)

Cooper, Richard J.; Hama-Aziz, Zanist Q.; Hiscock, Kevin M.; Lovett, Andrew A.; Vrain, Emilie; Dugdale, Stephen J.; Sünnenberg, Gilla; Dockerty, Trudie; Hovesen, Poul; Noble, Lister

doi:10.1016/j.still.2020.104648

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“…This improvement of crop yield in PZT suggested that the ploughing and zero‐tillage rotation could provide a more suitable soil environment for crop growth. This also partly supported by a 5‐year experiment which showed that conservation tillage alone has limited effects on improving soil productivity (Cooper et al, 2020). Additionally, some studies also have showed that mechanical tillage could have a positive effect in a long‐term no‐tillage system (Dang et al, 2018; Wang et al, 2020).…”

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“…This improvement of crop yield in PZT suggested that the ploughing and zero-tillage rotation could provide a more suitable soil environment for crop growth. This also partly supported by a 5-year experiment which showed that conservation tillage alone has limited effects on improving soil productivity (Cooper et al, 2020).…”

Section: Effect Of Tillage System With Retaining Crop Residue On Soil Aggregation and Soil Penetration Resistancementioning

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Ploughing/zero‐tillage rotation regulates soil physicochemical properties and improves productivity of erodible soil in a residue return farming system

Wang

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Land Degrad Dev

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In residue return farming, ploughing and zero‐tillage (syn. no‐till or minimal tillage) rotation may regulate soil physicochemical properties and help reduce erosion and improve productivity; however, the soil physicochemical properties and soil productivity response to ploughing and zero‐tillage rotation remain unclear. This present study evaluates the effects of ploughing and zero‐tillage rotation on soil physicochemical properties and crop productivity based on an 11‐year experiment (2007–2018) on a typical erodible area of the Loess Plateau. Three tillage methods were included: ploughing and zero‐tillage rotation with 1‐year ploughing tillage and 1‐year zero tillage (PZT), ploughing tillage with moldboard plough (PT), and zero tillage (ZT); crop residue was returned in all treatments. After 11 years' we tested, the PZT method showed significantly lower soil water storage in key maize growth stages, less soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (N) storage (0–10 cm), and poorer soil structure stability (0–10 cm) when compared with ZT. However, PZT showed significantly higher SOC and N storage (4.5%, 6.5% and 16.3%, 8.6%, respectively) in the 10–20 cm and 20–40 cm soil layers, compared with ZT. In addition, when compared with ZT and PT, PZT significantly decreased soil penetration resistance in 0–10 cm, 10–20 cm, and 20–40 cm soil depths and significantly increased yield of maize by 10.9 and 7.8%, respectively, and of wheat by 11.2 and 9.8%, respectively. This study highlights that combining ploughing and zero tillage with return of crop residue changed soil physicochemical properties and can provide an effective method to improve soil productivity in an erodible field.

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confidence: 76%

Section: Effect Of Tillage System With Retaining Crop Residue On Soil Aggregation and Soil Penetration Resistancementioning

confidence: 74%

Ploughing/zero‐tillage rotation regulates soil physicochemical properties and improves productivity of erodible soil in a residue return farming system

Wang

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Land Degrad Dev

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“…However, due to the complexity of the environment, this indicator is only a qualitative description and lacks a quantitative and precise assessment. As "ecological engineers" in terrestrial ecosystems, earthworms' sensitivity to the environment gives them an advantage as indicator organisms of soil health, and this has been applied to practical research by Zhao [5] and Cooper et al [37].…”

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Spatial Analysis of Cultivated Land Productivity and Health Condition: A Case Study of Gaoping City, China

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Cultivated land production capacity (PC) is the basis for national food security. Health condition (HC) is an important parameter to indicate the ecological safety of arable land. The policy of “the trinity protection of quantity, quality, and ecology of cultivated land” is one of the important protection directions currently being implemented in China. However, the existing evaluation systems are diverse and overlapping, which mainly focus on the quality and production potential of cultivated land, with less attention paid to the health status and the relationship between them in China. In this study, a comprehensive PC evaluation system including factors such as climate, landform, soil, and utilization was constructed, and an HC evaluation system including internal and external factors was established to support the requirements of the trinity pattern protection policy. These new evaluation systems were applied in Gaoping city, China. The results showed that the average PC index was 1617.35 and ranged between 98.40 and 4321.53, with the largest area of the higher-grade accounting for 36.37% of the total cultivated land. The spatial distribution of PC showed a gradual decrease from the southwest to northeast regions. The average score of the HC of arable land in Gaoping was 79.86 and showed an increasing trend of low in the middle areas and high in the edge regions, which revealed the opposed spatial characteristics between human activity and health status. Approximately 2637.86 ha of the cultivated land was at the imbalance stage, indicating that this is where managers needed to focus. In general, the study offered a reference and a scientific basis for evaluating PC and HC and provided support information for sustainable cultivated land management.

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“…The conservative system of tillage [11] differs from the traditional one in its essence. The number of agro-technological operations is reduced to a minimum, while a prerequisite is the preservation of plant residues of the previous crop to cover the field surface with an area of 30% or more [12].…”

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The efficiency of the system tillage during of the cultivation crops

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When cultivating crops in arid conditions, special importance is attached to soil cultivation systems aimed at eliminating the deficiency of soil moisture. The main purpose of soil cultivation is to create an optimal soil structure, which is a multiphase system of solid, liquid and gaseous components that form soil fertility with a subsequent effect on the yield of agricultural crops. Various soil cultivation systems are used to form a favorable soil structure. The conservative cultivation system consists in the minimum impact on the soil (usually direct sowing) and with the preservation of plant residues on its surface. The relevance of the study is to identify the most effective system of soil cultivation. The study was carried out under the conditions of many years of stationary experience in legume crop rotation for 5 years. It was revealed that the conservative system of soil cultivation is effective and surpasses the traditional one in the following indicators: soil moisture is more by 14.2%; the soil temperature is 2.6% lower; soil density is 3.48% higher. A stable increase in yield was also revealed: for winter wheat by 6.62%, for spring barley by 8.09%, for peas by 13.95% and for soybeans by 23.00%.

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Conservation tillage and soil health: Lessons from a 5-year UK farm trial (2013–2018)

Cited by 46 publications

References 45 publications

Ploughing/zero‐tillage rotation regulates soil physicochemical properties and improves productivity of erodible soil in a residue return farming system

Ploughing/zero‐tillage rotation regulates soil physicochemical properties and improves productivity of erodible soil in a residue return farming system

Spatial Analysis of Cultivated Land Productivity and Health Condition: A Case Study of Gaoping City, China

The efficiency of the system tillage during of the cultivation crops

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