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Strip tillage for sugarbeet production.

2009· article· en· W1563890072 on OpenAlex
Laura F. Overstreet

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational sugar journal · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSoil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTillageSeedbedStrip-tillPloughMulch-tillMinimum tillageAgronomyEnvironmental scienceChiselHarrowCultural practiceAgricultural engineeringEngineeringNo-till farmingSoil waterSowingSoil scienceBiologySoil fertilityPoaceae
DOInot available

Abstract

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Strip tillage is a conservation tillage practice that isolates tillage to a narrow strip of soil where individual rows will be planted for the upcoming crop. Strip tillage was developed in the 1970s and most strip tillage machines from that period incorporated the use of rotary hoes for seedbed preparation. In recent years, strip tillage machines have been largely re-designed using a system of shanks and coulters which provide greater fuel efficiency and faster operating speeds than previous designs. New commercial strip tillers have become widely available in the United States and parts of Canada and the practice of strip tillage is being increasingly implemented. Strip tillage is optimal in areas that are prone to soil erosion and drought, have compacted soils or plough pans, or for small-seeded crops requiring a cultivated seedbed. Advantages of strip tillage for sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) production include reduced soil erosion, enhanced moisture retention relative to full-width conventional tillage, improved seedbed environment relative to direct drilling, optimum fertilizer placement, increased carbon sequestration, and reduced fuel consumption. Challenges related to strip tillage systems for non-GMO sugarbeet production include weed control and management of cold, wet soils. Results of most U.S. research studies show that strip tillage has not differed from conventional tillage systems for sugarbeet yield and sugar production. Strip tillage for sugarbeet production was superior to direct drilling in most cases. Given the similar yields and potential cost savings from fuel and labor, strip-tillage is a feasible and potentially profitable alternative to conventional full-width tillage for sugarbeet production.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.761
Threshold uncertainty score0.339

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.239
Teacher spread0.229 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it