Bulletin No.
718
Document Type
Bulletin
Department
Department of Plant Science, Department of Economics
Description
The objectives of the experiment station trials were to:
• Measure yields in alternative, conventional and reduced-till farming systems.
• Compare whole-farm economic performance.
• Measure whole-farm productivity of the systems.
• Determine influence of farming system on soil nutrient relationships, soil temperatures, soil water content, bulk density, residue cover, and snow catch.
• Compare populations of plant feeding, predaceous, and microbial feeding nematodes.
• Determine populations of fungi and bacteria, and measure mycorrhizal associations and soil fungistatic properties.
• Determine effect of farming systems on earthworm populations.
• Determine weed species present and densities.
• Measure beneficial and harmful arthropod populations and measure insect damage.
• Compare the relative sustainability of the various systems.
This list of objectives represents various interests of the researchers and also reflects an attempt to obtain a holistic view of the processes that constitute a farming system.
Keywords
organic farming economic comparisons, conventional farming comparisons, reduced-till farming comparisons, farming environment
Pages
57
Publication Date
8-1993
Type
text
Format
application/pdf
Language
en
Publisher
South Dakota Experiment Station, South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Smolik, J. D.; Dobbs, T. L.; Rickeri, D. H.; and Wrage, L. J., "Agronomic, Economic and Ecological Relationships in Alternative (Organic), Coventional, and Reduced-till Farming Systems" (1993). Research Bulletins of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (1887-2011). 722.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_bulletins/722
