Land-leveling effects on soil texture, organic matter content, and aggregate stability

PW Unger, LJ Fulton, OR Jones - Journal of Soil and Water …, 1990 - jswconline.org
Land leveling improves water conservation on dryland. However, leveling shifts the depth to
soil horizons relative to the original soil surface and, thus, may cause unfavorable surface …

Short‐term effects of land leveling on soil physical properties and microbial biomass

KR Brye, NA Slaton, MC Savin… - Soil Science Society …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Land leveling is a practice that facilitates more uniform delivery of irrigation water. However,
the spatial variability and distributions of soil physical and biological properties, and the …

Soil physical and biological properties as affected by land leveling in a clayey aquert

KR Brye, NA Slaton, RJ Norman - Soil Science Society of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Land leveling is a government‐subsidized, water‐conserving agricultural practice common
in the Mississippi River Delta region of the midsouthern United States. Though practiced to …

State-space approach to evaluate effects of land levelling on the spatial relationships of soil properties of a lowland area

LS Aquino, LC Timm, K Reichardt, EP Barbosa… - Soil and Tillage …, 2015 - Elsevier
Land levelling is an agricultural practice to correct soil surface irregularities turning the area
more efficient for management of agronomic inputs. The technique has been adopted mainly …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of land leveling on lowland soil physical properties

JMB Parfitt, LC Timm, K Reichardt… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2014 - SciELO Brasil
The practice of land leveling alters the soil surface to create a uniform slope to improve land
conditions for the application of all agricultural practices. The aims of this study were to …

Rice yield and soil chemical properties as affected by precision land leveling in alluvial soils

TW Walker, WL Kingery, JE Street, MS Cox… - Agronomy …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
In 1998 and 1999, two soil series representative of a large percentage of rice (Oryza sativa
L.) growing hectarage in the Mississippi Delta were sampled in increments to a depth of 120 …

Comparison of soil physical properties under two different water table management regimes

BJ Baker, NR Fausey, KR Islam - Soil Science Society of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Soil physical properties are important indicators of the potential for agricultural production.
The objective of this research was to examine the difference in soil physical properties 9 yr …

[HTML][HTML] Short-term effects of land leveling on irrigation-related some soil properties in a clay loam soil

T Öztekin - The Scientific World Journal, 2013 - hindawi.com
There are few studies conducted on the short-term effects of land leveling on soil water
holding capacity. The objectives of this study were to analyze the short-term effects of land …

First-year soybean growth and production as affected by soil properties following land leveling

KR Brye, P Chen, LC Purcell, M Mozaffari, RJ Norman - Plant and soil, 2004 - Springer
In severely disturbed soils, such as those that have been recently land leveled, the
interactions among soil properties are accentuated because of the disruption of pre-leveling …

Organic matter and water‐stable aggregate distribution in ridge‐tilled surface soil

PW Unger - Soil Science Society of America Journal, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Soil surface conditions improve with increased organic matter (OM) and water‐stable
aggregation (WSA), but surface variability may influence values obtained when soils are …