PA-Rock Springs
Basic
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Climate
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Treatments
377.0 m
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Data
Pennsylvania State University
2025 is planned as the final field season
Ultisol
9.8°C
Dfb
maize-soybean(2)
canola/cereal rye-soybean/cereal rye-maize-forage-forage-forage(6)8
silage maize-wheat/leg. cover-silage maize-canola-forage-forage-forage(6)8
Notes
Diverse rotation sequences changed between 2010 and 2018, but always consisted of three years of annual grain, silage, or cover crops followed by two or three years of perennial forage.
Various fertilizer practices were tested within the three production systems.
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Description of available data:
Contact information:
2710 W Pine Grove Rd, Pennsylvania Furnace, PA - 40.72°, -77.92° (lat, lon)
RCBD
4
2010
990.0 mm
Manure (forage) rotation was no-till
Pest (grain) rotation SH was no-till, while the RH treatment included full-tillage once in 6 years
Control (corn-soy) rotation was primarily no-till. In 2016 a chisel-disc split plot was integrated to compare to the other no-till splits.
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Heather Karsten (PI), [email protected]
Thomas Adams, [email protected]
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