Seventeen farmers compared their conventional cropping practices with some form of minimum tillage cropping. The minimum tilled crops yielded 21 percent less grain than the conventionally sown crops. The reasons for these decreased yields were in most cases related to inexperienced management. The minimum tilled treatments usually had very poor weed kill strategies which often resulted in large weeds at sowing, very cloddy seed-beds, and numerous insects in the young crops.
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Crop yield, Western Australia, Sandy soils, Minimum tillage, South Coastal region (WA)
Crabtree, W L. (1990), Toward better minimum tillage for south-coastal sandplain soils. Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia, Perth. Report 111.
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