Effect of soil compaction on development and yield of sugar beets

Blake, G. R.; Ogden, D.B.; Adams, E. P.; Et, A L

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“…Few similar experiments have been made in Great Britain but several in the United States. Blake et al (1960) found that compacting soil decreased yield of sugar beet and increased the number of fangy roots, and Stout, Snyder & Carleton (1956) that it affected the germination of sugar-beet seeds because it changed the soilmoisture percentage. Pendleton (1950) found that conventional tillage operations compacted soil and both deep cultivation and farmyard manure improved soil porosity and root shape of sugar beet.…”

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Effects of soil compaction on yield and fertilizer requirement of sugar beet

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Five experiments (1967-9) on soils formed from calcareous drift examined the effects of soil compaction on seedling emergence and yield of sugar beet, also the interaction between compaction and response to nitrogen fertilizer (N) and phosphate fertilizer (P 2 O 6 ). Some seedbeds were compacted in winter, others in spring and others prepared with the minimum of compaction; each was tested with 0-6, 1-2 and 1-8 cwt/acre N plus 0-8 cwt/acre additional P 2 O 5 . All plots were given a basal dressing of 0-8 cwt/acre P 2 O 6 and enough of other major nutrients.Compaction decreased seedling populations in four experiments but increased it in one year, when the weather was dry while the seeds were germinating. However, in every experiment compaction significantly decreased yield of roots and sugar. It also interacted with the fertilizer treatments, significantly on average, increasing nitrogen requirement and decreasing phosphate requirement. On average, 0-6 cwt/acre N and 1-6 cwt/acre P 2 O 5 gave the greatest yield without compaction and 1-2 cwt/acre N and 0-8 cwt/acre P 2 O 6 with compaction.

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“…A further explanation for the lack of response may be that the extra water interfered with aeration by reducing non-capillary porosity. This is said to happen when porosity falls below about 10 % (Baver & Farnsworth, 1940;Blake et al 1960) and in the 1969 experiment the sugar beet did show characteristic symptoms of poor aeration. It is considered unlikely that this was a decisive factor in the other years, however, as non-capillary pore space was above 13% and also, with the high evaporative losses, any period of poor aeration would be transient.…”

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Effects of fine-particle amendments on the soil moisture characteristics of a gravelly sandy loam and on crop yields

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1973

J. Agric. Sci.

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SummaryPulverized fuel ash and fiuidized combustor ash were used to modify the availablewater capacity and moisture characteristics of a gravelly sandy loam soil in a study of the effects of fine-particle amendments on crop yield. Intimate incorporation of the ashes into the top-soil at rates of up to 502 t/ha increased the available water retained in the surface 0·3 m of soil by 40–80 %. The increase was mainly water held at potentials of between –0·05 bar and – 1 bar.Two sugar-beet crops followed by broad beans, salad onions and cabbage were grown in the amended soil. With the highest rate of ash addition yield of the onions was increased by over 30% and of the cabbages by 14%. No improvement in sugar-beet or broad-bean yields resulted from the treatment. Poor growth of the second sugar-beet crop was attributed to a reduced aeration effect but it is suggested that the failure of the increased available water to improve yield consistently in this and a previous experiment was in part caused by rapid evaporative losses from the amended soil.

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“…Deliberate packing of Bearden silt loam surface in Minnesota, USA, resulted in yield reductions over a two year period of 13 and 9 % for sugar beets and wheat, and 54 % for potatoes (1). In addition, potato tubers were of lower specific gravity and set nearer the soil surface (3), and the percentage of sprangled sugar beets doubled on packed soil (5). Packing Waukegan silt loam in the surface (0-20 cm), or subsurface (20-50 cm) reduced maize yields 7.5 % and 3.2 % respectively ; packing both layers, 14.5 %.…”

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Objectives of soil tillage related to field operations and soil management.

Blake¹

1963

NJAS

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The various tillage practices and field operations necessary for the growing and harvesting of crops are reviewed critically, with particular reference to possible ways of reducing these operations, with attendant benefits to soil structure and decreased costs. Particular reference is made to the possibilities of the reduction in cultivations made possible by the introduction of chemical techniques of controlling weeds. New minimum-tillage concepts and practices are discussed, including wheel-track planting and plough-planting techniques evolved in the USA for maize. See also Abs. 1182 and 1183.-P.J.B. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

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Effect of soil compaction on development and yield of sugar beets

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Effects of soil compaction on yield and fertilizer requirement of sugar beet

Effects of soil compaction on yield and fertilizer requirement of sugar beet

Effects of fine-particle amendments on the soil moisture characteristics of a gravelly sandy loam and on crop yields

Objectives of soil tillage related to field operations and soil management.

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