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Title: Toward better minimum tillage for south-coastal sandplain soils / W.L. Crabtree.
Author: Crabtree, W. L. (Western Australian Dept. of Agriculture, Jerramungup) ; Western Australia. Dept. of Agriculture.
Series: Resource management technical report , 111
Description: 21 p. ; 30 cm.
Subject: Crop yield. ; Western Australia. ; Sandy soils. ; Minimum tillage. ; South Coastal region (W.A.)
Notes: 5 tables, 7 figures.
17 ref.
(En)
ISBN/ISSN: 07293135.
Type: Journal
Abstract: (En)
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, numerous insects in the young crops and in-crop weeds that could not
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