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seen as great soil builder
Station reports another
important benefit from no
till: soil improvement.
Results of field
penments at the Delaware
research station show that
no-till increases organic
matter vn the soil, conserves
moisture, and raises the
nutrient-holding capacity of
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soils. University agronomist
William Mitchell has studied
fourteen pairs of farms
(tillage vs. no-tillage) m
continuous com production
from one to eight years, with
a broad range of soil types.
His tests confirm that no-till
is a valuable soil builder.
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A buildup of organic
matter or humus under no
tillage was clearly evident in
test fields, reports Mitchell.
It was most apparent in soil
depths up to three inches.
But in some cases, it reached
depths of nine inches. In
creases in humus ranged
from zero for some reduced
tillage (chisel plowed) fields
to almost SO percent for
fields which had been in no
tillage for seven to eight
years.
“This buildup m organic
matter explains the higher
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yield potential of no-tillage
fields,” he says.
Mitchell’s studies show
that nutrient exchange
capacity is higher with no
tillage, and leaching of
nutrients is reduced.
The added nutrient
holding capacity (or cation
exchange capacity) of soils
in no-till fields comes from
the accumulation of organic
matter in them, explains the
agronomist. This increased
nutrient-holding capacity
minimizes the leaching of
such nutrients as calcium,
magnesium and potassium.
Soil in the average no
tillage field in the Delaware
study had 21 percent more
exchange capacity than soil
in tilled fields, he reports.
Some long-range no-tillage
fields had 55 percent more
exchange capacity.
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•This highly desirable
change in soil activity
generally extended to a
depth of six inches, in con
trast to organic matter
accumulation which was
concentrated in the top three
inches of soil,” he says.
There was evidence that
accumulated organic matter
under no-till effectively
reduced potassium leaching.
Soil samples from notillage
fields contained 30 percent
more potassium than those
from plowed fields. In one
case, where 200 pounds of
potash had been broadcast
annually since 1972, there,
was 60 percent more
potassium in the three-inch
soil depth under no-till than
in soil samples from plowed
land.
Samples taken from a
loamy sand soil routinely
cultivated showed a
dramatic rate of potassium
leaching in a single season
under irrigation and heavy
rainfall. Under the same
conditions without tillage,
there was no evidence of
leaching.
A comparison of soil
samples from con
ventionally tilled fields with
those from no-till fields
under rye, vetch and com
residue covers showed
organic matter levels
ranging from 1.47 percent
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(conventional tillage), to
1.93 (rye cover), 2.13 (vetch
cover) and 1.83 (com residue
cover) after seven yean.
Assuming a five percent
nitrogen level, this organic
matter contained about 735
pounds of nitrogen per acre
for conventional tilLage, 965
pounds for no-till with rye
cover, 1,065 pounds for no-till
with vetch, and 915 pounds
for no-till with com residue
as a cover.
Mitchell also found that
no-till cover crops acted like
pumps, bringing
phosphorus, ' potassium,
boron, manganese, and zinc
from deep in the soil and
concentrating them in the
topsoil layer where they
were readily available to
com plants.
For example, potassium in
the top nine inches of soil
under full tillage tested at
189 pounds per acre. No
tillage without a cover crop
raised the K level to 231
pounds, thanks to ac
cumulated organic matter
and reduced leaching. When
rye and vetch covers were
added, K accumulated to a
high of 292 pounds.
The scientist found similar
nutrient accumulations in
the topsoil with other
elements, especially in the
case of boron, a highly
teachable nutrient.
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