Sustainable Agriculture Intensification in the Pampas of Argentina (Oliveros - Argentina)
- Objective
- The overall objective of the experiment is to study changes of crop production, soil indictors, environmental variables and resource use efficiency in sequences with different levels of sustainable intensification.
- Data Access Statement
- Available to collaborators only
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
- No
- Organization
- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuariaresearch organisation
- People
- Silvina Bacigaluppoprincipal investigatorINTA-ArgentinaEstación Experimental Agropecuaria OliverosFernando Salvagiottiprincipal investigatorINTA-ArgentinaEstación Experimental Agropecuaria OliverosDr Fernando Salvagiottiprincipal investigatorINTA-ArgentinaCrops, Soils and Water Management Group
Site: INTA Oliveros
- Type
- research station field
- Local code
- OLI
- Location
- OliverosSanta Fe ProvinceArgentina
- Geographic location
- -32.5625339, -60.8762106
- Elevation
- 6 Metres
- Visits permitted?
- Yes
- Management
- The experiment is conducted under rainfed conditions and no tillage.
- Soil type
- phaeozem
- Soil description
- Mollisols in the USDA classification system
- Climatic type
- warm oceanic / humid subtropical climate
- Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units air temperature 17.9 (12 – 23.8) degree Celsius precipitation 1057 (495 – 1862) millimeter sun hours 13 (11 – 15) hour
Design period: (2006—)
- Design Type
- Randomized complete block design
- Description
- Plots measure 13 x 50 m.
- Design description
- The experiment consists of a factorial combination of three soybean based sequences with increasing presence of cereals, cover crop inclusion and differential N fertilization in cereals.
- Number of plots
- 144
- Number of replicates
- 3
- Crops
Crop Years grown soybeans wheat maize cover crop - Crop Rotations
- soybean monoculture
- 1soybeans
M-S-W/S- 1maize
- 2soybeans
- 3wheatsoybeans
M-W/S- 1maize
- 2wheatsoybeans
- Factors
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- nitrogen fertilizer exposure Two Nitrogen fertilization recommendationsPlot application: Whole plot
- crop rotation
- tillage process soil scarification
- Measurements
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment grain yield trait Not specified annual soil water content Not specified annual plant biomass Not specified annual grain yield trait Not specified grain quality traits Not specified
Related publications
- Soil organic carbon, macro- and micronutrient changes in soil fractions with different lability in response to crop intensification https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2018.04.014 [In English]
- SOIL ORGANIC MATTER QUALITY, MACRO AND MICRONUTRIENT AVAILABILITY IN RESPONSE TO THE INCLUSION OF WHEAT AS COVER CROP http://www.suelos.org.ar/sitio/volumen-34-numero-1-julio-2016/ [In Spanish (Abstract in English)]
- Soybean in rotation with cereals attenuates nitrous oxide emissions as compared with soybean monoculture in the Pampas region https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115192 [In English]
- Do soil carbon sequestration and soil fertility increase by including a gramineous cover crop in continuous soybean? https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20257 [In English]