Agronomic Yields — MCSE Scale-up Experiment
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Agronomic grain yields of corn, soybean, and wheat harvests, reported at standard moisture, from the commercially managed fields of the MCSE Scale-up Experiment.
This datatable is part of the MCSE Scale-up Experiment dataset.
The MCSE Scale-up Experiment examined the scalability of plot-scale results from the annual cropping systems of the Main Cropping System Experiment (MCSE) at the LTER Main Site to field-scale conclusions. The MCSE Conventional (T1), Reduced-input (T3), and Biologically based (T4) management practices were each replicated in three commercially managed fields in the KBS landscape, with each crop in the corn-soybean-wheat rotation as an entry point for a total of 3x3x3 = 27 fields. The experiment was established in 2006 and retired in 2013. Agronomic yields and spatial yields were routinely monitored.
Note
| Experiment: | MCSE Scale-up Experiment |
| Data available from: | January 2006 to January 2012 |
| Dataset: | KBS056 |
| Datatable ID: | KBS056-001.55 |
| Core Areas | Primary Production,Disturbance |
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| Last Updated | 2023-12-07 |
| Variate | Description | Units |
|---|---|---|
| field id | KBS field id | |
| treatment | MCSE treatment | |
| replicate | replicate field | |
| year | crop year | |
| crop | crop planted | |
| acres | size of the field | |
| bu acre | yield in bu/acre at standard moisture (13% for soybean and wheat, 15.5% for corn) | bu/ac |
| mt ha | Metric Tonne per hectare (Mg/ha, based on 1 bushel wheat or soybeans = 60 lbs and 1 bushel corn = 56 lbs) |
| Protocols |
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| MCSE: Harvestable Biomass |
| Agronomic Yields |
Data Excerpt
| field_id | treatment | replicate | year | crop | acres | bu_acre | mt_ha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30-02-01 | T1 | 1 | 2012 | Glycine max L. (*) | 14.4 | 26.0 | 1.75 |
| 32-00-01 | T1 | 1 | 2012 | Zea mays L. (*) | 4.6 | 32.4 | 2.03 |
| 40-00-01 | T1 | 1 | 2012 | Triticum aestivum L. (*) | 14.7 | 63.2 | 4.25 |
| 72-00-01 | T1 | 2 | 2012 | Zea mays L. (*) | 11.1 | 58.9 | 3.7 |
| 71-00-01 | T1 | 2 | 2012 | Triticum aestivum L. (*) | 16.6 | 56.9 | 3.83 |