Rotation, Cover Crops Impact Cotton Yields More Than Tillage

摘要

After eight years of research on no-till advantages and disadvantages with cotton crops, Dr. Paul DeLaune isconvinced it's not as much about the tillage as it is about the cover crop and/or rotation.DeLaune, a Texas A&M AgriLife Research environmental soil scientist in Vernon, says he has compared no-till, strip till and conventional till, as well as cotton with a terminated wheat crop in the Rolling Plains.