Stubble: trash or treasure
Stubble management involves the retention of stubble either in or on the seedbed during fallowing between crops by the practices of incorporation or surface mulching.
Publisher: Department of Land and Water Conservation
Cost: Free
Language: English
File: PDF 594.13 KB / Pages 8
Name: stubble-trash-or-treasure.pdf
The conventional management practice of burning the stubble leaves the soil bare and consequently unprotected from raindrop impact when the risk from erosion is highest. The period of highest rainfall intensity occurs from October to April.