Tillage, Soil Management, and Field Traffic: Impact on Soil Physical and Mechanical Properties
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 14897
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pre-compression stress; agricultural traffic; soil mechanics; compaction; sugar cane
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil tillage is a major mechanized operation causing soil physical changes. Soil management, including crop cover, rotation, and biological chiseling, has seen the development of significant strategies to improve soil physical qualities. However, a sequence of field traffic operations, including spraying, fertilizing, and harvesting, are part of a crop’s schedule, and successive traffic operations may result in compaction. Strategies to mitigate the effect of tillage on the degradation of soil structure, interventions using soil management (cover crop, straw management, tillage systems, etc.), and field traffic control and stress-induced prediction are actions that still need to be implemented to maintain soil health. Thus, in this Special Issue, the submission of studies that identify major soil structure issues, new strategies for soil structure improvement, and actions to mitigate and model compaction are encouraged.
Dr. Mario Monteiro Rolim
Dr. Renato Paiva de Lima
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mechanization
- soil compaction
- modeling
- soil stress
- soil structure
- soil physical restrictions
- soil mechanical properties
- straw mulching
- tire–soil interaction
- cover crops
- biological chiseling
- mechanical chiseling
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