Soil biological properties, soil losses and corn yield in long-term organic and conventional farming systems

Agriculture & Biology

• soil biological properties 98%
• conventional farming 95%
• organic production 74%
• no-tillage 72%
• runoff 68%
• farming systems 59%
• tillage 46%
• corn 45%
• soil 36%
• soil organic matter 34%
• particulate organic matter 33%
• carbon 23%
• cropping systems 22%
• sediments 22%
• humid zones 16%
• crop-weed competition 16%
• microbial carbon 15%
• total suspended solids 15%
• reduced tillage 15%
• Appalachian region 15%
• sweetcorn 15%
• soil carbon 14%
• conventional tillage 13%
• topsoil 13%
• management systems 12%
• Zea mays 9%
• rivers 9%
• ecosystems 9%
• farmers 8%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• organic farming 100%
• farming system 77%
• tillage 75%
• maize 64%
• soil property 63%
• zero tillage 55%
• runoff 50%
• loss 38%
• carbon 32%
• particulate organic matter 32%
• soil 30%
• cropping practice 28%
• Acrisol 22%
• organic matter 19%
• weed 16%
• sandy loam 16%
• soil carbon 14%
• topsoil 14%
• sediment 13%
• soil organic matter 13%
• soil surface 12%
• erosion 9%
• mountain 9%
• biomass 8%
• ecosystem 8%
• project 7%
• river 7%