Moškanjci Long-term Tillage Field Trial
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Objective
- To compare conventional and minimum tillage.
- Description
- The experiment has been used to study impacts of tillage on soil microbiology.
- Data Access Statement
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- Data license
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- Data policy
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- Organizations
- University of Ljubljanaresearch organisationFertility Building in Organic Cropping Systemsresearch network
- People
Site: Moškanjci experiment site
- Location
- MoškanjciPutjSlovenia
- Geographic location
- 46.4161, 15.9924
- Elevation
- 225 Metres
- Visits permitted?
- No
- History
- Before the start of the experiment in 1999, the soil was managed using conventional tillage.
- Management
- Apart from tillage which is a treatment factor, all other agricultural measures follow the standard farmer practice for the area.
- Soil type
- cambisol
- Soil description
- The soil classified as a Skeletic, Eutric Cambisol (Loamic) with a loamy texture.
- Soil properties
Variable Depth Value (range) Units Ref year Estimated? Baseline? soil pH (6 – 6.5) sand content (30 – 40) Percent silt content (42 – 48) Percent clay content (17 – 26) Percent soil organic matter 2.6 Percent - Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units air temperature 1999 – 2011 10.7 degree Celsius precipitation 1999 – 2011 906 millimeter
Design period: (1999—)
- Design description
- The experiment compares reduced and conventional tillage treatments. Plots measured 12 x 8 m
- Number of plots
- 8
- Number of replicates
- 4
- Crops
Crop Years grown maize winter wheat winter barley rapeseed - Factor
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- tillage process
conventional tillage (20 cm depth)
Applied to crop: All cropsApplication method: mouldboard ploughreduced tillage (10 cm depth)
Applied to crop: All cropsApplication method: disc harrow
- Measurement
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment grain yield trait Not specified
Related publications
- Kaurin, A., Mihelič, R., Kastelec, D. et al. Consequences of minimum soil tillage on abiotic soil properties and composition of microbial communities in a shallow Cambisol originated from fluvioglacial deposits. Biol Fertil Soils 51, 923–933 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-015-1037-9 [In English]
- A. Kaurin, R. Mihelič, D. Kastelec, H. Grčman, D. Bru, L. Philippot, M. Suhadolc, 2018. Resilience of bacteria, archaea, fungi and N-cycling microbial guilds under plough and conservation tillage, to agricultural drought, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.02.007 [In English]