Breton Plots - Hendrigan Plots
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Objective
- To compare 3 different rotations: 1) continuous grain (CG), 2) continuous forage (CF), and 3) an 8-year agro-ecological rotation. The CG and CF rotations are meant to represent two extreme cropping systems that could be implemented on gray wooded soils.
- Data Access Statement
- Don't know
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
- Don't know
- Organization
- University of Alberta, Department of Renewable Resources
- People
- Miles Dyckprincipal investigatorUniversity of AlbertaDepartment of Renewable ResourcesDick Puurveenexperiment managerUniversity of AlbertaDepartment of Renewable Resources
Site: Hendrigan Plots
- Type
- research station field
- Location
- BretonAlbertaCanada
- Geographic location
- 53.088921, -114.443829
- Visits permitted?
- No
- Soil type
- luvisol
- Soil description
- Gray Wooded luvisol, developed on glacial till and previously wooded.
- Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units air temperature 1997 – 2006 2.1 degree Celsius precipitation 1997 – 2006 547 (374 – 726) millimeter
Design period: (1980—)
- Design Type
- Other
- Description
- The experiment compares three different farming systems.
- Number of harvests per year
- 1
- Crops
Crop Years grown barley grass clover leys faba beans - Crop Rotations
- Continuous barley 1980—
- 1barley
Continuous forage 1980—- 1grass clover leysFescue and white clover
8 year agro-ecological rotation - original 1980—1999- 1barleygrain harvest
- 2faba beansploughed down
- 3barleygrain harvest
- 4faba beansploughed down
- 5barleygrain harvestgrass clover leysunder sown for forage as brome and red clover
- 6grass clover leys2 cuts for hay
- 7grass clover leys2 cuts for hay
- 8grass clover leys1 cut for hay, fall ploughed down
8 year agro-ecological rotation - revised 2000—- 1barleygrain harvest
- 2barleygrain harvest
- 3faba beansploughed down or silage
- 4barleygrain harvest
- 5barleysilagegrass clover leysunder sown for forage as brome and alfalfa
- 6grass clover leys2 cuts for hay
- 7grass clover leys2 cuts for hay
- 8grass clover leys1 cut for hay, fall ploughed down
- Measurements
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment grain yield trait Not specified forage yield Not specified
Related publications
- Project website https://bretonplots.ualberta.ca/ [In English]
- Dyck, M.F., Roberston, J.A. and Puurveen, D. 2012. The University of Alberta Breton Plots. Prairie Soils and Crops 5:96-115.