Long-term tillage experiment - Józsefmajor
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Objective
- To compare the effects of different tillage processes
- Data Access Statement
- Don't know
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
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- Organization
- Józsefmajor Experimental and Training Farmexperimental research station
- People
Site: Experiment site
- Type
- research station field
- Location
- HatvanHungary
- Geographic location
- 47.688117, 19.605503
- Elevation
- 110 Metres
- Visits permitted?
- No
- Management
- The site follows a crop rotation typical in Central Europe. Apart from tillage, management is identical across all plots for amount and timing of fertilizer use, rainfed conditions, application of pesticides/herbicides.
- Soil type
- chernozem
- Soil description
- Soil type is classified as chernic calcic chernozem
- Soil properties
Variable Depth Value (range) Units Ref year Estimated? Baseline? soil pH (4.8 – 5.6) 2014 clay content (34.4 – 35.5) Percent 2014 sand content (34.3 – 35) Percent 2014 silt content (30.3 – 30.6) Percent 2014 soil organic carbon (1.59 – 2.27) Percent 2014 total soil nitrogen (0.18 – 0.23) Percent 2014 - Climatic type
- temperate continental / mediterranean climate
- Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units precipitation 1961 – 1990 560 millimeter air temperature 1961 – 1990 10.3 degree Celsius
Design period: (2002—)
- Design Type
- Split-plot
- Design description
- Randomised. Plots measure 13 x 150m
- Number of replicates
- 4
- Crops
Crop Years grown spring barley sunflower winter wheat maize winter oats - Factor
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- tillage process
conventional tillage (28-32 cm depth)
Application method: mouldboard ploughmouldboard ploughing with levellingdeep cultivation (22-24 cm depth)
Application method: deep cultivatorshallow cultivation (18-20 cm depth)
Application method: shallow cultivatordeep loosening (40-45 cm depth)
Combined with discing.minimum tillage (16-20 cm depth)
Application method: disc harrowno-till
- Measurements
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment soil properties Soil yield trait Not specified
Related publications
- Gy. Gelybó, Z. Barcza, M. Dencső, I. Potyó, I. Kása, Á. Horel, K. Pokovai, M. Birkás, A. Kern, R. Hollós, E. Tóth, 2022. Effect of tillage and crop type on soil respiration in a long-term field experiment on chernozem soil under temperate climate, Soil and Tillage Research, Volume 216 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2021.105239 [In English]