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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.

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Experiment: MCSE Scale-up Experiment
Data available from: January 2006 to January 2012
Dataset: KBS056
Datatable ID: KBS056-001.60
Core Areas Primary Production,Disturbance
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Last Updated 2024-03-18
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 acre
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)

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
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