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Intercropping studies in organic pea production

2021· dissertation· en· W3199731430 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Will Bailey-Elkin

Bibliographic record

VenueMspace (University of Manitoba) · 2021
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicAgronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIntercroppingProduction (economics)Null (SQL)AgronomyAgroforestryBiologyComputer scienceEconomicsData mining
DOInot available

Abstract

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Semi-leafless field peas (Pisum sativum L.) do not compete well with weeds and synthetic herbicides are prohibited in certified organic crop production. Therefore, significant interest has been placed on the development of alternative strategies of weed management in organic field pea production. Pea intercropping has recently become popular in the Canadian Prairies as a means of suppressing weeds. However, little research has been completed on additive pea intercrops under organic management. The objectives of this research project were to evaluate different yellow pea (cv. CDC Amarillo) intercrop mixtures to examine their effect on weed suppression, grain yield and quality, plant growth, and profitability. In 2019 and 2020 three separate pea intercrop experiments were completed in Carman Manitoba, Canada, under organic management. The three experiments were separated by companion crop species. Peas were planted in both monoculture and additive intercropping designs with low, medium, or high seeding rates of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), mustard (Brassica juncea L.), or oats (Avena sativa L.). When averaged across site-years weed biomass suppression varied between the three experiments. The medium and high seeding rates reduced (P<0.05) weed biomass by 17% to 44% and resulted in a significant (P<0.05) pea yield penalty from 8% to 26%. Pea-cereal intercropping appeared to provide a greater level of weed biomass suppression compared to pea-mustard intercropping. Furthermore, pea-mustard intercrops were unstable across the three site-years suggesting that pea-mustard intercropping in organic production may result in unpredictable outcomes. In most instances, across all three experiments, pea growth and grain quality were not affected by intercropping. Intercropping did not increase net returns across a wide range of market conditions. In conclusion, while all three intercrop mixtures exhibited the ability to suppress weed biomass, substantial reductions in pea yields were observed and the contribution of the non-pea companion crop grain yield did not benefit net returns significantly.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.814
Threshold uncertainty score0.664

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 head0.045
GPT teacher head0.239
Teacher spread0.194 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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