Long term experiment with no tillage and conventional tillage
- Local identifier
- Lageado Experimental Farm - soil management
- Years operational
- 1985— (Establishment period end: 1985)
- Objective
- To compare tillage systems: Conventional Tillage (disk plow plus disk harrow) and No Tillage systems
- Data Access Statement
- Available to collaborators only
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
- Yes (not online)
- Organization
- São Paulo State Universityexperimental research station
- People
- Dr Juliano Calonegoprincipal investigatorProfessorDr Carlos A C Crusciolprincipal investigatorProfessorDr Ciro Rosolemprincipal investigatorProfessorDr Rogerio Sorattoprincipal investigatorAssociate Professor
Site: Long term experiment with no tillage and conventional tillage
- Type
- research station field
- Local code
- Tarc
- Location
- BotucatuSão PauloBrazil
- Geographic location
- -22.8166666, -48.4166667
- Elevation
- 786 Metres
- Visits permitted?
- No
- Soil type
- ferralsol
- Soil description
- Typic Rhodudalf and the texture is clay uniformly in the soil profile
- Climate description
- mesothermal with dry winters, and the dry season is well defined from May to September, with yearly average rainfall of 1450 mm, distributed mostly between October and April
- Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units air temperature 20.7 (15.3 – 26.1) degree Celsius
Design period: Main Period (1985—)
- Design Type
- Randomized complete block design
- Description
- Crop season: Soybean, Common beans, Maize; Off-season: Wheat, Maize, Black oat, Pearl millet, Common beans, Yellow oat, Urochloa, Safflower, Sorghum
- Design description
- Conventional Tillage (disk plow plus disk harrow) and No Tillage systems
- Number of plots
- 8
- Number of replicates
- 4
- Number of harvests per year
- 2
- Crops
Crop Years grown soybeans beans maize wheat oats millets urochloa safflower sorghum - Factor
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- tillage process
conventional tillage
disk plow plus disk harrowno-till
Related publications
- Age of No-Till System and Nitrogen Management on Common Bean Nutrition and Yield 10.2134/agronj13.0439 [In English]
- Assessing the long-term effects of zero-tillage on the macroporosity of Brazilian soils using X-ray Computed Tomography 10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.11.031 [In English]