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| Peigne, Joséphine; Vian, Jean François; Payet, Vincent; Saby, Nicolas. |
| It has become commonplace to consider ploughing as an agricultural practice that destroys soil fertility. Organic farmers have traditionally used the plough to till their soil and control weeds. However, there is a growing interest in adopting tillage practices without ploughing to preserve long-term soil fertility and in the hope, subsequently, of increasing crop yields. The aim of this paper is to assess if conservation tillage treatments in organic farming did in fact improve long-term soil fertility, wheat rooting and yield in a long term field experiment (2004–2015). We compared the effects of conservation tillage treatments (superficial tillage – ST- with chisel at 15 cm depth and very superficial tillage – VST- at 5–7 cm depth) and conventional... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Soil tillage. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/32372/1/10yearsofACinOF.pdf |
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