Relationships between field management, soil compaction, and crop productivity

In southern Iran, intensive tillage operations and residue removal increased soil compaction, which reduces soil porosity, crop development, and yield. While conservation farming combined with crop residue retention showed encouraging results. A 2-year field experiment (2016–2017) was conducted to evaluate the effect of tillage methods (conventional tillage, CT; reduced tillage, RT; and no tillage, NT) on soil properties as well as crop yield of...