Zonal Tillage as Innovative Element of the Technology of Growing Winter Wheat: A Field Experiment under Low Rainfall Conditions

Iwona Jaskulska, Dariusz Jaskulski, Marek Różniak, Maja Radziemska and Lech Gałęzewski
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Iwona Jaskulska: Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology, 7 prof. S. Kaliskiego St., 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Dariusz Jaskulski: Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology, 7 prof. S. Kaliskiego St., 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Marek Różniak: Agro-Land, 1 Stawowa St., Śmielin, 89-110 Sadki, Poland
Maja Radziemska: Institute of Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 159 Nowoursynowska, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
Lech Gałęzewski: Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology, 7 prof. S. Kaliskiego St., 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland

Agriculture, 2020, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-12

Abstract: Zonal tillage, including strip-till, can have a positive effect on soil properties, seed germination, plant emergence, growth, and yield of crops. The aim of this two-factor field experiment was to compare different technologies of basic soil tillage, fertilisation, and sowing of winter wheat carried out after two post-harvest agrotechnical practises in a region with low rainfall. The three treatments of the first factor were: conventional technology (CT)—plough tillage, pre-sowing fertilisation, seedbed preparation and sowing; reduced technology (RT)—plough tillage replaced with deep loosening and (ST)—one pass strip-till technology using a hybrid machine. Agrotechnical practises carried out after the harvest of the previous crop were the second factor treatments, i.e., crushed straw and shallow tillage (TS), mulch from crushed straw (MS). The measurement of the treatment effects included changes in soil moisture, plant emergence, yield components and their correlation, grain yield, and the dependence of the yield components on soil moisture. Wheat growing in ST technology resulted in a higher soil moisture than in RT and CT. Only immediately after winter was the soil moisture similar. Grain yield in ST was similar as in CT and significantly, up to 10.4%, higher than in RT. The higher ST grain yield resulted from uniform plant emergence, greater ear density, and grain weight per ear. The correlation between yield components was weaker in ST than in CT and RT. The positive dependence of the size of the crop components on soil moisture was also weaker. The agrotechnical practises performed right after the previous crop harvest affected neither the soil moisture during the growing season of winter wheat, nor the grain yield and its components.

Keywords: hybrid machine; innovative technology; one pass strip-tillage; soil moisture; wheat (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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