A long-term study to increase water use efficiency, grain yield and the profit of growers in the Western region in a no-till system. Cunderdin Site

The main principles of conservation agriculture are permanent soil cover, minimal soil disturbance and diverse crop rotations, yet these are often absent from our no-till systems. This project was designed to test and further develop high quality no-till systems based on these conservation principles. The project commenced in 2006 and completed twelve years of cropping in 2018. An additional year was completed in 2019 with the whole trial seeded to wheat. The overall objective of the project was to determine the benefits of diverse rotations, high residue and minimal disturbance no-till systems on soil quality, weeds, diseases as well as crop water use efficiency, economics, and yield. This collection contain the Cunderdin Site data.

保护性农业（Conservation Agriculture）的核心原则为永久性土壤覆盖、最小化土壤扰动与多样化作物轮作，但当前我们的免耕（no-till）体系往往未落实这些原则。本项目旨在基于上述保护性农业原则，测试并进一步优化高品质免耕体系。本项目于2006年启动，至2018年完成了连续12年的种植周期；2019年追加1年试验，全试验田均播种小麦。本项目的总体目标为探究多样化轮作、高残茬免耕及最小扰动免耕体系对土壤质量、杂草、病害、作物水分利用效率、经济效益及产量的综合效益。本数据集包含坎德丁试验点（Cunderdin Site）的相关数据。