Alternative Biomass Production Study for Resilient Economic Agricultural Practices in Morris, Minnesota
The Tillage Study was established in 1997 to assess the effect of a variety of tillage intensities on soil C. The initial eight treatments included no-tillage, moldboard + disk tillage, chisel tillage, and fall and spring residue management, with or without strip-tillage and strip-tillage + subsoiling (Archer and Reicosky, 2009). In 2004, treatments were reduced to no-tillage, moldboard tillage, and fall and spring residue management without strip-tillage, but all had an early or late planting date. The last comprehensive set of soil samples were collected in 2006. In 2008, the strip-tilled subset of the Tillage Study plots were repurposed for the Alternative Biomass Production Systems study, which was designed to explore alternative strategies to support bioenergy including planting of cellulosic feedstock. The Alternative Biomass Production plots included perennials in an extended 6-year rotation, winter cereal rye cover crops in a corn-soybean rotation, and an alternative Sorghum-Sudan grass hybrid forage system, all of which have and will continue to be monitored for agronomic and soil properties.
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Modified | 2021-12-21 |
Release Date | 2021-02-16 |
Frequency | Irregularly |
Identifier | cafbf65e-2056-4aac-af33-ab3896fb3c6d |
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Area | POLYGON ((-95.801811 45.687024, -95.799659 45.687024, -95.799659 45.684633, -95.801811 45.684633)) |
Publisher | U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service |
Temporal Coverage | January 1, 2008 to August 1, 2017 |
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Contact Name | Johnson, Jane |
Contact Email | |
Public Access Level | Public |
Program Code | 005:040 - Department of Agriculture - National Research |
Bureau Code | 005:18 - Agricultural Research Service |
Source ID | cafbf65e-2056-4aac-af33-ab3896fb3c6d |
Harvest Source Title | Geodata Harvest |
Harvest Source URI | https://geodata.nal.usda.gov/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw |
Last Harvest Performed | Thu, 04/22/2021 - 01:01 |