Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2009
An experiment comparing continuous winter wheat with the two wheat crops in a rotation of beans, oats, wheat, wheat, with four rates of application of N fertilizer, is described and the results discussed.
The wheat following wheat in the rotation consistently outyielded the wheat following oats, but the continuous wheat yielded on average less. Response to N fertilizer was not affected by sequence of cropping and since there was practically no response to the highest increment of N, it is clear that additional N could not have brought the yield of the continuous wheat up to the level of the wheat in rotation.