Where Is Your Soil Water? Crop Yield Has The Answer

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 16:14 in Earth & Climate

Crop yield is highly dependent on soil plant-available water, the portion of soil water that can be taken up by plant roots. New research has shown that measured plant-available water capacity correlated with corn yield better in dry years than in normal or wet years. Agreement between measured plant-available water and estimates was weaker in the claypan soils than well-drained soils.

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