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Lime application for a crop rotation under no-tillage

D. Pöttker, J. R. Ben

01/Dec/1998

Alternative methods to correct soil acidity are needed because farmers who adopted no-tillage no longer want to plow soils to incorporate lime. Two experiments were carried out during the years 1993-1996 under no-tillage to evaluate the response of soybean, wheat, corn, oat and barley to lime applied on the surface of soils with 380 g kg-1 clay (LEd-Haplorthox) and with 580 g kg-1 clay (LRd-Haplorthox). A completely randomized block design, with three replications and seven treatments, was used. The treatments […]