<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Long-term cropping system studies support intensive and responsive cropping systems in the low-rainfall Australian Mallee"^^ . "Continuous-cropping systems based on no-till and crop residue retention have been widely adopted across the low-rainfall cereal belt in southern Australia in the last decade to manage climate risk and wind erosion. This paper reports on two long-term field experiments that were established in the late 1990s on texturally different soil types at a time of uncertainty about the profitability of continuous-cropping rotations in low-rainfall environments. Continuous-cereal systems significantly outyielded the traditional pasture–wheat systems in five of the 11 seasons at Waikerie (light-textured soil), resulting in a cumulative gross margin of AU$1600 ha–1 after the initial eight seasons, almost double that of the other treatments. All rotation systems at Kerribee (loam-textured soil) performed poorly, with only the 2003 season producing yields close to 3 t ha–1 and no profit achieved in the years 2004–08. For low-rainfall environments, the success of a higher input cropping system largely depends on the ability to offset the losses in poor seasons by capturing greater benefits from good seasons; therefore, strategies to manage climatic risk are paramount. Fallow efficiency, or the efficiency with which rainfall was stored during the period between crops, averaged 17% at Kerribee and 30% at Waikerie, also indicating that soil texture strongly influences soil evaporation. A ‘responsive’ strategy of continuous cereal with the occasional, high-value ‘break crop’ when seasonal conditions are optimal is considered superior to fixed or pasture–fallow rotations for controlling grass, disease or nutritional issues."^^ . "2015-04-28" . . "66" . "06" . . "CSIRO Publishing"^^ . . . "Crop & Pasture Science"^^ . . . "18360947" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "D"^^ . "Roget"^^ . "D Roget"^^ . . "C W"^^ . "Davoren"^^ . "C W Davoren"^^ . . "R"^^ . "Llewellyn"^^ . "R Llewellyn"^^ . . "A M"^^ . "Whitbread"^^ . "A M Whitbread"^^ . . "V V S R"^^ . "Gupta"^^ . "V V S R Gupta"^^ . . . . . . "Long-term cropping system studies support intensive and responsive cropping systems in the low-rainfall Australian Mallee (PDF)"^^ . . . . . "Long-term cropping system studies support intensive and responsive cropping systems in the low-rainfall Australian Mallee (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Long-term cropping system studies support intensive and responsive cropping systems in the low-rainfall Australian Mallee (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Long-term cropping system studies support intensive and responsive cropping systems in the low-rainfall Australian Mallee (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Long-term cropping system studies support intensive and responsive cropping systems in the low-rainfall Australian Mallee (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Long-term cropping system studies support intensive and responsive cropping systems in the low-rainfall Australian Mallee (Other)"^^ . . . . . "HTML Summary of #9458 \n\nLong-term cropping system studies support intensive and responsive cropping systems in the low-rainfall Australian Mallee\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Others"@en . .