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Sustainable Tillage and Sowing Technologies Series II
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Sustainable Tillage and Sowing Technologies Series II

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2023) | Viewed by 3851

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Kestutis Romaneckas

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Agriculture Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, 44248 Kaunas, Lithuania
Interests: organic and precision farming; sustainable tillage and sowing machinery and technologies; seedbed formation; soil properties; weed-crop concurrence; inter-cropping; field crop productivity and quality; biomass waste management
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Dear Colleagues,

Environmentally and energy-efficient farming technologies are being integrated into agricultural production as the most advanced technologies with the greatest economic, energy and environmental benefits. The basis of these technologies is to limit intensive mechanical and chemical effects on soil and crops, ensure the renewal of soil productivity, protect the environment, ensure the rational use of material, energy and labour resources, produce healthy products and guarantee the economic efficiency of agricultural production. New environmentally friendly farming technologies are not possible without new tillage and sowing machinery, which are also subject to increased soil and environmental requirements. The most important of them are: to not deplete the soil, to stop the decrease of humus and soil degradation, to reduce leaching of nutrients and the most fertile soil particles, to protect the soil from erosion and destruction of its structure, to promote natural biological processes in the soil, etc. However, sustainable conservation tillage and sowing systems often causes the increase of the abundance of weeds, pests and diseases.

Special Issue will highlight the investigations of the sustainable tillage and sowing technologies (minimal, ploughless, strip, zero) and technical solutions of machinery in conditions of conservation and precision farming. Research papers, communications, and review articles are all welcome. Attention will also be given to studies involving impact of sustainable tillage and sowing on the peculiarities of crop seedbed formation, soil properties (soil nutrient proportion, leaching and runoff, physical properties, erosion and degradation, health of soil biota, GHG emissions), pests, diseases and weeds infestation, development of productivity and quality of crops. Research data on the economy and energy of different tillage and sowing technologies are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Kestutis Romaneckas
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainable tillage and sowing machinery and systems
  • crop seedbed formation
  • soil properties and GHG emissions
  • pests, diseases and weeds
  • crops productivity and quality
  • energy and economy of tillage and sowing

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Effects of Soil Electrical Conductivity and Physical Properties on Seeding Depth Maintenance and Winter Wheat Germination, Development and Productivity
by Kęstutis Romaneckas, Sidona Buragienė, Marius Kazlauskas, Dainius Steponavičius, Vilma Naujokienė, Indrė Bručienė and Egidijus Šarauskis
Agronomy 2023, 13(1), 190; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13010190 - 06 Jan 2023
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Crop seeding depth is an important parameter in agrotechnologies, but how can seeding depth automatically be maintained in on-farm soil conditions with different textures, granulometric compositions, structural contents and penetration resistances? For this reason, an on-farm field experiment was conducted in the Panevėžys [...] Read more.
Crop seeding depth is an important parameter in agrotechnologies, but how can seeding depth automatically be maintained in on-farm soil conditions with different textures, granulometric compositions, structural contents and penetration resistances? For this reason, an on-farm field experiment was conducted in the Panevėžys district (Lithuania) during 2020–2022. The field was divided into five zones (EZ1–EZ5) according to soil electrical conductivity. In addition, uniform and variable seeding depths were compared. The results of the investigations showed that soil electrical conductivity was highly correlated with sand (r = −0.867; p ≤ 0.010 > 0.001) and silt (r = 0.871; p ≤ 0.010 > 0.001) contents. The seeding method mainly did not have a significant effect on soil physical properties and winter wheat germination, development and productivity. Higher differences were observed among field zones. The winter wheat seeding depth varied from 27.74 to 33.12 mm between the two most different soil electrical conductivity zones. In zones with variable seeding depths, winter wheat seeds sprouted the most abundantly, and germination reached 99% (in EZ3 and EZ4). In EZ1, EZ2 and EZ4, the yields of grain were the highest and were significantly higher than that in the loamy sand of EZ5. The 1000-grain mass was not affected by any of the tested factors. The results suggest the need for further research in fields with a wider range of soil electrical conductivity. This can increase the variation in seeding depth and reveal interactions among the factors in more detail. Full article
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Impact of Tillage Intensity on Planosol Bulk Density, Pore Size Distribution, and Water Capacity in Faba Bean Cultivation
by Kęstutis Romaneckas, Rasa Kimbirauskienė and Aušra Sinkevičienė
Agronomy 2022, 12(10), 2311; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12102311 - 26 Sep 2022
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Tillage systems affect many properties of soil, such as soil bulk density, porosity, pore distribution, and soil water capacity. However, the effect of reduced tillage (RT) on faba bean cultivation requires wider analysis. We carried out our investigations at Vytautas Magnus University, Agriculture [...] Read more.
Tillage systems affect many properties of soil, such as soil bulk density, porosity, pore distribution, and soil water capacity. However, the effect of reduced tillage (RT) on faba bean cultivation requires wider analysis. We carried out our investigations at Vytautas Magnus University, Agriculture Academy (Lithuania), as part of a long-term field experiment. The aim was to determine the effect of tillage intensity on soil bulk density, pore distribution and soil water capacity in faba bean cultivation. Five tillage systems were used: deep (DP) and shallow (SP) ploughing, deep cultivation (DC) (chiselling), shallow cultivation (SC) (disking), and no tillage (NT). The results showed that the soil bulk density in NT plots was somewhat higher in upper (0–10 cm) and less in deeper (15–20 cm and 30–35 cm) soil layers compared to DP. The distribution of soil pores depended more on the sampling depth than on tillage. In RT and NT plots, the number of meso-pores was often higher, and that of micro-pores was lower than in ploughed plots. In the upper (0–5 cm) soil layer, the highest water capacity was established in NT, and in deeper layers, this was found in RT plots compared to DP. The density of soil mainly affected the volume of micro-and-macro-pores and water capacity. Full article
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