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Agronomic Yields - Alfalfa

Yields from the alfalfa (treatment 6) harvests of LTER Main Site.

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Context:

This data set contains information about agronomic yields for main site cropping systems which include treatments 1-4 (corn – wheat – soybean rotations) and treatment 6 (alfalfa) after 1994. Agronomic yields are measured during normal crop harvest; yields are determined by machine harvesters appropriate to each crop as described in the Agronomic protocol.

Experiment: Main Cropping System Experiment (MCSE)
Temporal Coverage: 1995-05-31 to 2010-08-28
Dataset: KBS020
Datatable ID: KBS020-003.22
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Last Updated 2010-03-23
Metadata
Variate Description Units
date the date of the harvest
treatment the main lter treatment number
replicate the main lter site replicate number
crop the crop harvested
yield t ha dry yield in metric tons per hectare tonne/hectare

Data Excerpt

Date Treatment Replicate Crop Yield T Ha
2010-08-28 6 6 Medicago sativa L. 1.46
2010-08-28 6 5 Medicago sativa L. 1.32
2010-08-28 6 4 Medicago sativa L. 2.04
2010-08-28 6 3 Medicago sativa L. 1.93
2010-08-28 6 2 Medicago sativa L. 1.84
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