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Experimental Plot at Oxton Park, Harden New South Wales.
Experimental Plot at Oxton Park, Harden, New South Wales.

Conservation cropping in the high-rainfall zones

This article is an overview of a Harden long-term conservation cropping experiment and its effect on wheat yield in this high rainfall region. (2 pages)

This article provides an overview of a long-term conservation cropping experiment in Harden, New South Wales, and its effect on wheat yield in this high rainfall region.

This project followed on from research in the late 1970s which showed the environmental value of conservation cropping.

The Harden experiments maintained a mean wheat yield of 4.8t/ha for the highest yielding treatment, giving confidence that the results are relevant to productive cropping systems.

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