Spatial patterns of historical crop yields reveal soil health attributes in US Midwest fields.

ABSTRACT: Attaining high crop yields and increasing carbon storage in agricultural soils, while avoiding negative environmental impacts on water quality, soil erosion, and biodiversity, requires accurate and precise management of crop inputs and management practices. The long-term analysis of spatial and temporal patterns of crop yields provides insights on how yields vary in a field, with parts of field constantly producing either high yields or low yields and other parts that fluctuate from one year to the next. The concept of yield stability has shown to be informative on how plants translate the effects of environmental conditions (e.g., soil, climate, topography) across the field and over the years in the final yield, and as a valuable layer in developing prescription maps of variable fertilize

SUBMITTER: Fowler A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10764739 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature