Tillage systems trial C1
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Local identifier
- C1
- Years operational
- 1985—2010
- Objective
- Unknown
- Data Access Statement
- Don't know
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
- Don't know
- Organization
- Australian Cotton Research Institute, Narrabriexperimental research station
- People
Site: Field C1
- Type
- research station field
- Location
- NarrabriNew South WalesAustralia
- Geographic location
- -30.183333, 149.6
- Visits permitted?
- No
- Management
- All treatments were furrow irrigated when rainfall was insufficient to meet demand.
- Soil description
- The soil was classified as a fine, thermic, montmorillonitic, Typic Haplustert
- Soil properties
Variable Depth Value (range) Units Ref year Estimated? Baseline? sand content 0 – 60 Centimetres 27 Percent silt content 0 – 60 Centimetres 11 Percent clay content 0 – 60 Centimetres 62 Percent soil pH 0 – 30 Centimetres 7.6 1993 cation exchange capacity 0 – 30 Centimetres 39 kilogram per centimole 1993 soil organic carbon 0 – 30 Centimetres 9 gram per kilogram 1993 - Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units air temperature (3 – 35) degree Celsius precipitation 593 millimeter
Design period: (1985—2010)
- Design Type
- Randomized complete block design
- Description
- Until 1999 wheat stubble was incorporated before sowing cotton, whereas from December 1999 cotton was sown with no-tillage into wheat stubble. From 2000 Roundup-Ready cotton was grown.
- Design description
- Plots measured 190 m long and 36 rows wide.
- Number of replicates
- 4
- Crops
Crop Years grown cotton winter wheat fallow - Crop Rotations
- Continuous cotton
- 1cottonsummerfallowwinter
Cotton-Wheat- 1cottonsummerwinter wheatwinter
- 2fallowsummer and winter
- 3cottonsummer
- Factor
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- tillage process
conventional tillage (30 cm depth)
Application method: chisel ploughApplied to continuous cotton only. Cotton plants are slashed after harvest followed by disc-ploughing and incorporation of cotton stalks to 20 cm followed by chisel ploughing to 30 cm followed by 1-m bed construction.minimum tillage
Cotton plants are slashed after harvest followed by root cutting incorporation of cotton stalks into beds and bed renovation with a disc-hiller.
- Measurements
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment grain yield trait winter wheat cotton lint yield cotton
Related publications
- Hulugalle, N.R., Strong, C., McPherson, K. et al. Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometric ratios under cotton cropping systems in Australian Vertisols: a meta-analysis of seven experiments. Nutr Cycl Agroecosyst 107, 357–367 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10705-017-9837-y [In English]
- Hulugalle NR, Weaver TB, Scott F (2005) Continuous cotton and cotton-wheat rotation effects on soil properties and profitability in an irrigated Vertisol. J Sustain Agric 27:5–24 https://doi.org/10.1300/J064v27n03_03 [In English]