Mixed rotations and tillage in SE Buenos Aires (Balcarce - Argentina)

Objective
Evaluate the effect of cropping systems (mixed rotation + tillage) on crop yields, and on the dynamics of some soil properties.
Data Access Statement
Available to collaborators only
Data license
Don't know
Data policy
Don't know
Organization
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria
research organisation
Person
Guillermo A. Studdert
principal investigator
INTA-Argentina
Agronomy

Site: INTA Balcarce (Argentina)

Type
research station field
Location
Balcare
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Geographic location
-37.7525, -58.29944444
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Elevation
130 Metres
Slope
1°
Visits permitted?
No
Soil type
phaeozem
Soil description
The soils of this region are classified as Mollisols
Climatic type
humid temperate climate

Design period: (1976—2015)

Design Type
Randomized complete block design
Design description
The experiment had a randomized complete block design with a split­-plot treatment arrange­ment. Plots measured 10 x 35 m. Since 1994 the experiment alternates 3 year pastures with 4 different periods of cropping of a maize-soybean-wheat rotation. Cropping periods are none (pasture); 3 year; 9 year; continuous (no cropping) . Between 1976 and 1993 the experiment had 7 different rotations growing various crop sequences and with varied lengths of pasture in between.
Crops
CropYears grown
wheat
maize
soybeans
sunflower
Vicia spp
mixed pastures
oats
potatoes
Crop Rotations
Pasture
  • 1
    mixed pastures
crop sequence  1994—2014
  • 1
    maize
  • 2
    soybeans
  • 3
    wheat
Factors
Factor name
Factor levels
fertilizer exposure
Sub-plots. Between 1976 and 1993, two levels and four levels since 1994.
0
1976—2014
60  (60 kgN/ha)
1994—2014
120  (120 kgN/ha)
1994—2014
180  (180 kgN/ha)
1994—2014
90  (90 kgN/ha)
1976—1993
tillage process
no-till
1994—2014
conventional tillage
1994—2014
Application method: mouldboard plough
moldboard plow, disk grade, field cultivator or vibro-cultivator

Related publications

  • Santiago N. Tourn, Cecilia C. Videla, Guillermo A. Studdert, 2019. Ecological agriculture intensification through crop-pasture rotations does improve aggregation of Southeastern-Pampas Mollisols. Soil and Tillage Research. Volume 195. 104411
  • Studdert, G.A., Echeverría, H.E. and Casanovas, E.M. (1997), Crop-Pasture Rotation for Sustaining the Quality and Productivity of a Typic Argiudoll. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 61: 1466-1472.