The feasibility and profitability of short season corn and sorghum cropping systems on the Texas High Plains /
(FSC), continuous full season sorghum (FSS), and continuous
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1995.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | (FSC), continuous full season sorghum (FSS), and continuous 100-day short season sorghum cultivar (SSS), and winter wheat also necessary. Timing of harvesting one crop and planting and labor requirements. A greater diversity of machinery was application (LEPA) system. The four experimental cropping applications and by reduced to no-tillage operations. Peak Bushland, TX and at the North Plains Research Field near continuous FSC and all experimental rotations while continuous Wht Grz-Grn reduced irrigation compared to Conventional cropping systems of continuous full season corn Etter, TX. The study at Bushland was fully irrigated using experimental cropping systems did not reduce irrigation, but flood irrigation in level plots with raised borders. The grazed-grain (Wht Grz-Grn) and grain only. The cropping harvested SSC, and by realizing the opportunity to graze and irrigation demands were spread more evenly throughout the irrigation water use, profitability, and feasibility. maintaining profitability. not profitable and used the greatest amount of irrigation obtain grain from wheat planted after SSC. Input costs were optimum yields. Experimental rotations increased management profitability was increased. The rotation of SSC/Wht/SSS Profitability was obtained by increasing total revenue profitable rotation under full and limited irrigation. reduced by decreased fertilizer, insecticide, and irrigation rotation, by obtaining higher market prices for early sorghum when compared to yields of SSC in continuous sprinkler irrigation equipped with a low energy precision Studies of experimental cropping systems were conducted at study at Etter was conducted as limited irrigation using study. Compared to conventional cropping systems, the systems utilized a 98-day short season corn cultivar (SSC), a systems were evaluated in terms of attainable yields, the next became critical in determining whether a rotation the TAES-USDA Conservation and Production Research Field at through improved yields of SSC in rotation with wheat and was profitable. The experimental rotation SSC/Wht Grz was water. Conventional cropping systems of continuous FSS and wheat grazed-grain and grain only were also included in the with wheat grazed or non-grazed, was consistently the most year, and irrigation scheduling became less critical for |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Agronomy". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 124 leaves ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |