Apelsvoll Cropping System Experiment (APSE)
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Objective
- To compare arable and mixed dairy systems at a whole-system level, including both conventional and organic practices.
- Data Access Statement
- Don't know
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
- Don't know
- Organizations
- Apelsvoll Research Stationexperimental research stationNorwegian Institute for Bioeconomyresearch organisation
- People
Site: Apelsvoll site
- Type
- research station field
- Location
- KappNylinnaNorway
- Geographic location
- 60.701945, 10.864546
- Elevation
- 250 Metres
- Visits permitted?
- No
- History
- The site was previously in agricultural use with mixed arable and dairy systems. The first experiment crop was sown in autumn 1989, prior to that the cropping history was spring barley (1989), fallow (1988), winter wheat (1987), and fallow (1986).
- Soil type
- cambisol
- Soil properties
Variable Depth Value (range) Units Ref year Estimated? Baseline? total soil nitrogen 0 – 30 Centimetres (0.17 – 0.34) Percent 1988 total soil nitrogen 30 – 70 Centimetres (0.04 – 0.06) percent 1988 soil organic carbon 0 – 30 Centimetres (1.8 – 3.3) Percent 1988 soil organic carbon 30 – 70 Centimetres (0.2 – 0.4) Percent 1988 soil pH 0 – 30 Centimetres (6 – 6.5) 1988 plant available phosphorous 0 – 30 Centimetres (6 – 9.5) mg / 100 g soil 1988 sand content 0 – 30 Centimetres 47 (43 – 55) Percent 1988 silt content 0 – 30 Centimetres 35 (31 – 41) Percent 1988 clay content 0 – 30 Centimetres 18 (14 – 21) Percent 1988 - Climatic type
- cool continental / subarctic climate
- Climate description
- Rainfall deficits and droughts in early summer are common.
- Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units air temperature 1961 – 1990 3.6 degree Celsius precipitation 1961 – 1990 600 millimeter
Design period: (1989—)
- Design description
- Main plots measure 30 x 60 m and contain 4 sub-plots measuring 15 x 30m.
- Number of plots
- 12
- Number of subplots
- 48
- Crops
Crop Years grown spring wheat spring barley spring oats potatoes peas grass clover leys swedes rye grass - Crop Rotations
- CS1
- 1spring wheat
- 2spring oats
- 3spring barley
- 4potatoes
CS2- 1spring wheat
- 2spring oats
- 3spring barley
- 4potatoes
CS3- 1spring wheat
- 2spring oatswith peas
- 3spring barley
- 4grass clover leys
CS4- 1spring wheat
- 2spring barley
- 3grass clover leys
- 4grass clover leys
CS5- 1spring wheat
- 2spring barley
- 3grass clover leys
- 4grass clover leys
CS6- 1spring barley
- 2grass clover leys
- 3grass clover leys
- 4grass clover leys
- Factor
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- cropping system The Rotations above describe the different rotations used for each of the 6 cropping systems
CS1 Reference arable
Autumn plough, no slurry use, mineral NPK used, no catch crops, straw residues removedCS2 Optimised arable
Spring harrow, no slurry use, mineral NPK used, catch crops, straw residues leftCS3 Organic arable
Spring plough, some slurry use, no mineral NPK used, catch crops, straw residues leftCS4 Optimised dairy
Spring plough, annual slurry use, mineral NPK used, catch crops, straw residues leftCS5 Organic dairy 50%
Spring plough, annual slurry use, no mineral NPK used, catch crops, straw residues leftCS6 Organic dairy 75%
Spring plough, annual slurry use, mineral NPK used, catch crops, straw residues left
- Measurements
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment soil properties Not specified yield components Not specified
Related publications
- Riley H, Eltun R. 1994. The Apelsvoll cropping system experiment II soil characteristics. Norw. J. Agric. Sci. 8:317–333.
- Hugh Riley, Trond Maukon Henriksen, Torfinn Torp & Audun Korsaeth (2022) Soil carbon under arable and mixed dairy cropping in a long-term trial in SE Norway, Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B — Soil & Plant Science, 72:1, 648-659 https://doi.org/10.1080/09064710.2022.2047770 [In English]