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	Water storage efficiency in no-till dryland cropping systems.: An article from: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation by E.A. McGee, G.A. Peterson, D.G. Westfall List Price:  $5.95 Available:  Available for download now Studio:  Soil & Water Conservation Society Binding:  Digital Number Of Pages:  14 Publication Date:  March 01, 1997 Publisher:  Soil & Water Conservation Society
FORMATS HTML EDITORIAL REVIEWS Product Description This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on March 1, 1997. The length of the article is 4050 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the author: Wheat-fallow (W-F) is the predominant cropping system in the Great Plains, but the percent of precipitation stored as soil water(WSE) during fallow is frequently less than 25% with conventional tillage. No-till technology has improved potential WSE. Our objectives were to determine the effects of cropping system, landscape position(soil), and evaporative gradient(location) on WSE during inter-crop periods in intensified no-till cropping systems. Water storage efficiency was 48% during the wheat to corn fallow period in the 3- or 4-year rotational systems, contrasting sharply with the 22% WSE for the W-F system. The 3-year system, with a shorter fallow period (11 months), was just as effective in storing water as the long fallow period (14 months) in the WF system. Water storage efficiency was the lowest at the southern location, which had the highest potential evapotranspiration, but the contrasts among cropping systems remained. Toeslope soils had the highest WSE compared to summit or sidelslope positions because of their opportunity to catch runoff water. The possibility exists for using even more intensive cropping systems than those examined in this study, and this may mean that summer fallow could be eliminated with no-till practices. Citation Details Title: Water storage efficiency in no-till dryland cropping systems. Author: E.A. McGee Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed) Date: March 1, 1997 Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society Volume: v52 Issue: n2 Page: p131(6) Distributed by Thomson Gale