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Modeling Conservation Agriculture

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A sustainable land management should aim at high production, while minimizing risk, maintaining quality of soil and water. Excessive tillage can decrease soil carbon storage and influence the soil environment of a crop. The evaluation of the impact of tillage systems on soil biophysical properties and on the growth crops requires a system approach. In this chapter, we introduce the system approach to land use sustainability (SALUS) model and its tillage component to evaluate the effects of tillage on soil on water infiltration and time to ponding and soil biophysical properties.

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  1. Department of Geological Sciences, Michigan State University, Michigan, USA

    Bruno Basso & Ryan Nagelkirk

  2. Department of Landscape and Agroforestry Systems, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Luigi Sartori

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  1. Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Farooq

  2. Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

    Kadambot H. M. Siddique

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Basso, B., Nagelkirk, R., Sartori, L. (2015). Modeling Conservation Agriculture. In: Farooq, M., Siddique, K. (eds) Conservation Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11620-4_8

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