Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2014, 62(5), 1071-1078 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201462051071

Effects of Different Soil Tillage Intensity on Yields of Spring Barley

Alena Pernicová1, Blanka Procházková1, Pavel Hledík2, Tomáš Filipský1
1 Department of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
2 Crop Research Institute, Drnovská 507/73, 161 06 Praha 6-Ruzyně, Czech Republic

Within the period 1990-2012, effects of different soil tillage intensity on yields of spring barley were studied in a field experiment in the sugar-beet producing region (Ivanovice na Hané, Czech Republic). The forecrop of the spring barley was always sugar beet; following in three different crop rotations, after maize for silage, winter wheat and spring barley. Four variants of tillage were evaluated: Variant 1 - ploughing to the depth of 0.22 m; Variant 2 - shallow ploughing to the depth of 0.15 m; Variant 3 - no tillage; Variant 4 - shallow loosening soil to the depth of 0.10 m.
Effect of different tillage on yields of spring barley was statistically insignificant. In all three crop rotations, the highest and the lowest average yields were obtained in Variant 2 (ploughing to the depth of 0.15 m) and Variant 1 (ploughing to the depth of 0.22 m), respectively. Average yields in variants of soil tillage were these: variant 1 - 6.42 t.ha-1; variant 2 - 6.57 t.ha-1, variant 3 - 6.53 t.ha-1, variant 4 - 6.50 t.ha-1. The obtained results indicate that in these pedo-climatic conditions reduction of intensity soil tillage represented a very suitable alternative in case of growing spring barley after sugar beet as compared with the conventional method of tillage by ploughing to the depth of 0.22 m.

Keywords: spring barley, methods of tillage, grain yield
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This article was written with the financial support by the project grant agency NAZV [No. QJ1210008] "Innovation of systems cereal growing in different agro-ecological conditions of the Czech Republic" and project grant agency TAČR [No. TA02010669] "Research and development of machines and technologies for differentiated tillage and fertilization."

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Pernicová, A., Procházková, B., Hledík, P., & Filipský, T. (2014). Effects of Different Soil Tillage Intensity on Yields of Spring Barley. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 62(5), 1071-1078. doi: 10.11118/actaun201462051071
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