@article{Romaneckas_Avizienyte_Adamaviciene_Buragiene_Kriauciuniene_Sarauskis_2020, title={The impact of five long-term contrasting tillage systems on maize productivity parameters}, volume={29}, url={https://journal.fi/afs/article/view/83737}, DOI={10.23986/afsci.83737}, abstractNote={<p>Maize productivity is mainly constrained by the climate, meteorological and soil conditions, and agro-technological practice. Reduced primary tillage intensity might be a method to optimize the complex interactions between these conditions. An 8-year field experiment was designed to test this. The aim of the experiment was to establish the influence of deep and shallow ploughing, chiselling, disking and no-tillage systems on parameters of maize productivity. No-tillage resulted in a significant decrease in maize stand density compared with deep and shallow ploughing, as well as chiselling, while maize canopy height and dry biomass was slightly higher in the no-tillage system. Nevertheless, in no-tillage plots the maize yield was insignificantly lower than in deeply and shallowly ploughed plots (on average 3.5–6.4% less). Overall, long-term reduction of primary tillage had less impact on maize productivity parameters than meteorological conditions during the vegetation period.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Agricultural and Food Science}, author={Romaneckas, Kestutis and Avizienyte, Dovile and Adamaviciene, Aida and Buragiene, Sidona and Kriauciuniene, Zita and Sarauskis, Egidijus}, year={2020}, month={Mar.}, pages={6–17} }