Agronomy journal, Vol. 70 No. 5, 2008.
Original scientific paper
COMPARISON OF TWO SOIL TILLAGE TREATMENTS FOR WINTER BARLEY - SOYBEAN GROWING BASED ONLY ON RESIDUAL NITROGEN AFTER SOYBEAN
Darko Babić
; Faculty of agriculture Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Bojan Stipešević
; Faculty of agriculture Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Danijel Jug
; Faculty of agriculture Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Irena Jug
; Faculty of agriculture Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Davor Šamota
; Faculty of agriculture Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Suzana Kratovalieva
; Agricultural institute Skopje, Skoplje, Macedonia
Marta Birkas
; Szent István University Gödöllő, Hungary
Abstract
The winter barley crop growing has not been adequately researched regarding soil tillage systems, especially in crop rotation with the soybean, both crops gaining importance as food or fodder. Also, productivity of such crop rotation in low nitrogen environment is especially interesting for organic crop growing, where mineral nitrogen fertilization is not allowed. The research on two soil tillage systems, the conventional one, based on mouldboard ploughing (PLOW) and reduced soil tillage, based on discharrowing (DISC), with no other nitrogen source except symbiotic soybean bacterial fixation, was conducted at the experimental site Bokšić (Croatia), during the seasons 2004/05 and 2005/06. Results showed low but stable yields of winter barley, between 2.1 and 2.6 t ha-1, where PLOW treatment recorded lower yield than DISC in 2005, and usual soybean yields (between 2.8 and 3.4 t ha-1), with higher soybean grain yields for PLOW only in 2006. The absolute mass and hectolitre mass did not show any statistical differences among treatments either.
Keywords
winter barley; soybean; mouldboard ploughing; discharrowing
Hrčak ID:
32008
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Publication date:
31.12.2008.
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